This is an analysis of Messalina by Alfred Austin.
The gloss is fading from your hair,
The glamour from your brow;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcccb dedefffe ghgXiiihXgigiaaai
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,17,
- Metre: 01010011 010011 01110101 011101 101010101 11010101 01010101 111101 11011111 011011 11010001 111101 11110111 01010111 11110111 010101 11110101 1100111 11010111 111100 11010101 11010101 11010101 101001 11011101 110001 11110101 110111 11101101 11110101 10111111 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
your
Anaphora
the, nor, that
