This is an analysis of The Golden Year! by Alfred Austin.
When piped the love-warm throstle shrill,
And all the air was laden…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abAbcdcdaXAb CBcbXeXecbCB fEfeghghfefE gigibdbdXXgi
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,12,12,
- Metre: 1101111 1101110 01011101 1101110 110011111 1101010 11010101 1101110 10111101 1111010 01011101 1101110 11111111 1111110 10111101 1011010 01010111 1001110 11010101 0101010 10010111 1101010 11111111 1111110 11010101 1101010 11110101 1101010 01011101 01010101 11011101 0101111 11010101 1101010 11010101 1101010 11011111 11011010 11110111 0001110 11110101 1111110 101101001 1101010 11100101 1111110 101011111 101011010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, to
Anaphora
when, and, the