This is an analysis of All That's Not Love . . . by Alan Seeger.

All that's not love is the dearth of my days,
The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX baba acac Xaaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,5,
  • Metre: 1111001011 01001001010 01001011011 01001101010 1101101001 01001011101 01011001001 11111010101 01001001011 01111111011 01011101001 110011011001 11111011101 11111101101 11011001101 001001101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 19

Anaphora

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