This is an analysis of An Old Lesson From The Fields by Archibald Lampman.

Even as I watched the daylight how it sped
From noon till eve, and saw the light wind pass…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXba cXaabc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 10111011101 0111110111 0111010101 1111110101 0101010101 1111010101 1111111001 1111110111 11111100111 1101110100 1111000111 11011010111 1111010101 10010101011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

oh