This is an analysis of The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux by Alfred Edward Housman.
The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers
Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece bfbf gdgd XXaX chch
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01110101010 1001110101 01100101010 1101111101 11101011101 1101001101 1001111111 1111110101 1101001101 1101010101 1101010011 1101110101 0001010011 0111010111 1101001111 1111110001 0100001101 1111011101 11010000101 1101111111 0101010101 0100011110 0101110111 1101010101 0100111101 1001001111 1011101111 1001111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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