This is an analysis of Unshriven by Adam Lindsay Gordon.
Oh ! the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie,
And the steed stood ready harness'd in the hall.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXcX XcdX eXfX bXXX Xdcd eeXe faga Xaga
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1011101101110 10111010001 1110101011101010 11101110001 10111011110111 1110100011100 00111111011111 11111000110101 1001101010101100 0101010111 11101111110011 11110111000 1110011110101 1101010101 11111111110011 1010001011101 1101111110101 10101110111 11101111011111 10111110101 1011101101110 10101110101 11101111011101 10101110111 10111011011101 10101010111 10111011011101 10111010101 10101011010101 0101110001 10101011010101 0101110001 1011001101110 10101010101 10111011010111 11000010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
and, he, your, i
Anaphora
and,
