This is an analysis of Kyrenaikos by Alan Seeger.

Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down
In grove and garden to the sapphire sea;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXecXec
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 111110101 01110001001 1101010101 1101111101 1011010111 1101100111 0101011101 1011011101 1101110001 1111110001 0101010001 11111111000 00101000111 1001110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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