This is an analysis of Westward On The High-Hilled Plains by Alfred Edward Housman.
Westward on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef bgbg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101101 1110101 1110101 10100101 1110111 1011101 1111111 1011101 1110001 1010101 1011101 1010101 1111101 1110101 1011101 1011011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16

