This is an analysis of A Country Nosegay by Alfred Austin.
Where have you been through the long sweet hours
That follow the fragrant feet of June?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede efef agag fhfh eeee haha eeee aiai ababXaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1110101110 110010101 101101010010 1010010111 111101111 110111101 1010100111 1101110101 01001101111 11001111001 10101001001 111100111 0100100101 0101101111 10101001001 011100101 0100101111 010110111 101001011001 010010100 10111000111 110100111 1111111010 111000100101 11101011001 00101101111 110101101 1111101111 1110111111 010101111 0110101011 010111101 0100111101 1110101101 010101111 011101111 110101111 1100101101 111100111 1011101111 1110100101 111100101 1101100111 110110001 111011111 1111001010 111111101 1100111010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, as, for, they
Anaphora
the, they
