This is an analysis of August by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
THERE WERE four apples on the bough,
Half gold half red, that one might know…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbab ccddcd Eeccec ffggfg fXbbfb ggddgd ffccfc aaccac ggggggXEebbeb
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 10110101 11111111 01110101 01000111 11010111 11011111 01100110 01110111 01010111 01000101 11001111 01110101 10110101 11111111 01110101 01110101 01111111 01010101 01110101 11010110 10110101 11011101 11010101 11110100 00110101 11001100 01000101 11010001 11110101 10011111 11010101 01011101 111010101 01010100 11010101 11110100 111100101 01110001 11011101 010111011 01011101 11110111 11110111 11110101 01011111 01011111 01111111 11010011 01110101 11010111 10110111 11010111 11010111 01010111 10110101 11111111 01110001 01000101 11011110 10010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
in, of, and, felt
Anaphora
the, felt
