This is an analysis of Thora's Song ('Ashtaroth') by Adam Lindsay Gordon.
We severed in Autumn early,
Ere the earth was torn by the plough;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD aeaeedeD XbXbcdcD ffXfXdcD ghghcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11001010 10111101 011011010 1110101 110011010 10101101 101011010 1101101 11010110 00100101 0111110 1100111 01111010 10101101 11101110 1101101 01110110 01101001 101110100 0110101 001110110 10111001 111001110 1101101 11011110 00100101 11111110 11100101 11001110 1100101 111010110 1101101 1011010 1011001 11011110 1101101 11011110 1111101 111110010 1101101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, no
Anaphora
the, there, no
