This is an analysis of Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger.

Though thou art now a ruin bare and cold,
Thou wert sometime the garden of a king.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010111 1111010001 01110100101 01011011101 0111110111 11001001001 1101001100 1011110101 1101010011 1101010111 0111110100 1111010111 1111110001 1011001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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