This is an analysis of The Merry Guide by Alfred Edward Housman.
Once in the wind of morning
I ranged the thymy wold;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb dbbb aece cdbd cbcb efef ghah gbhb bbaX ebbb ehch Xbeb cbXb hbgbXcbeb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1001010 110101 0111110 110111 1101011 010111 0101110 110101 0101010 110101 1101110 111001 1111110 111111 1111110 111101 1011110 110101 1111010 111101 01010010 110101 1101010 100101 1101110 111101 11001110 110101 0101010 1110001 1111010 111101 1101011 010101 1111110 010101 1101010 110101 1011110 010101 1101011 010101 1111110 111101 0011110 110101 1001010 110101 101010110 010101 0101110 1000101 11010010 011101 1101011 100101 0111010 110101 1111110 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
and
