This is an analysis of Broceliande by Alan Seeger.

Broceliande! in the perilous beauty of silence and menacing shade,
Thou art set on the shores of the sea down the haze…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaaX aaa aaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,3,7,
  • Metre: 100001001001011001 111101001101 00101000100 01001001001 101101101 100 101111001001011101 1001101101111001001 010101110100100101 011101101110100101 11011100100101001 10010010011110 011100 100 100 100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

broceliande

Epiphora

broceliande

Anadiplosis

broceliande