This is an analysis of The Passing Of Spring by Alfred Austin.
Spring came out of the woodland chase,
With her violet eyes and her primrose face,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ccXX ddee ccXX XXXX cccc ffgg bbcc bbhh iXcc hhdX jjgg ccdd iiiX ddee bbdd XXXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 011100111 00100110111 01101101010 10111101010 1110111111 011110111 0100100101 1010101101 110011111 1010100101 101001011011 11000101010 1010111101 0111101101 11001011010 11000101010 1110101110 01001101110 010011101 1101011110 1010100101 1111001100 1100111010 1111111010 101001101001 10101100101 1011100111 1100101101 010101101 010101111 1100101110 1101001110 1101011010 01100001110 01110001010 11101101010 1100101101 010110101 1101101111 0101100101 10101101010 01101011010 01001001111 111100111 0011111111 0110100101 011100101 101001101110 1100100111 1100100111 1101001010 11001001010 101110101 1100110101 1011100101 1011101111 1100101101 110101101 1010101101 1010110101 10111100111 10101101101 110101101 010101101 011110101 111100111 011010111 1011010100 1101101101 01100100101 111100111 1110111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 18
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
her, and, '
Anaphora
with, and, the
Epiphora
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