This is an analysis of As Dies The Year by Alfred Austin.
The Old Year knocks at the farmhouse door.
October, come with your matron gaze,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacca cddceeX fggfggf hddhbbh
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 011110111 010101101 00111101101 1111101001 10111010111 11100111 10101111111 101101101 010101101 11111101 1111001101 110101101 10100110111 011011100 1010110101 010100101 1110110101 110110111 110101101 1100110101 111110100 11111010 111111111 1010100111 0011110101 100101101 10111101 101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, he, to
Anaphora
and
