This is an analysis of John Day: Xiii by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
DAY was a full-blown flower in heaven, alive
With murmuring joy of bees and birds aswarm,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabbacddccd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 110111001001 01001011110 1001011111 0101110101 11001111101 10001010001 111101101001 1101000101 0101110101 1101110111 1101011101 110011101001 1101000111 11001011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
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