This is an analysis of An Autumn Homily by Alfred Austin.

Here let us sit beneath this oak, and hear
The acorns fitfully fall one by one,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababacacddddee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010111 0101001111 0101000101 1101110111 0101110011 1001010101 0101010001 1101110101 1101010101 1101010111 1101111101 0111100001 1111010001 010001111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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