This is an analysis of Oh Stay At Home, My Lad by Alfred Edward Housman.
Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough
The land and not the sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabba XXccX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,
- Metre: 11111111 011101 11010111 11010101 101101 11010011 111101 11010001 01010011 111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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