This is an analysis of La Nue by Alan Seeger.
Oft when sweet music undulated round,
Like the full moon out of a perfumed sea…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeXe fgcg aXaa ghgh XXcf aiai dada gggg jgjX chcX Xcfcf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 1111010101 1011100011 1100010101 1111010101 10010111011 11010010101 0111010111 1101100101 0101100111 11010101001 01000101010 110100111001 10010100010 1111010101 11111100010 1111010101 1001000101 1001010110 1001010101 10001011111 1001110101 1001110111 11011100111 101010001 011101111010 011101100100 1100110011 0100010010010 1101100001 01010110111 11110100001 010100100100 1101010101 0101010101 1101010110 1101010101 1101101111 1001110111 1101010001 10010100100 1101000101 1111010100 1101010011 0101000101 1101000101 10110101001 00110110001 10110100 1111100101 110100100010 1011110101 11001101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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