This is an analysis of Chi È? by Alfred Austin.

When for a buonamano
Cometh, at break of day,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabacXcA dadAdaXA eaeAbaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 1101000 101101 11010010 0101101 10100010 0100101 110011010 1100101 1001110 0110101 11001110 0101101 10111010 1101111 1110110 1100101 11101110 110101 11001110 0101101 1111010 111101 10011011 1111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24