This is an analysis of A Song Of Autumn by Adam Lindsay Gordon.

‘WHERE shall we go for our garlands glad
At the falling of the year,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aBababaBcbcXcbcB
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 111111101 1010001 1011111011 10111011 110111111 1110111 111111101 1010001 111110101 11110111 1011110111 11110111 110100111 11100111 1111010111 1010001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

year

Anaphora

when