This is an analysis of The Sweetness Of Life by Archibald Lampman.

It fell on a day I was happy,
And the winds, the concave sky,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcbXb cdadXeXeFBaX ceaeXgagFBaX hehefbaX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,12,12,8,
  • Metre: 011011110 1010011 0101010011 1101011 111110011 0010101 1111110 1111101 1101111 1101111 1111110 11010001 1111110 11001101 01111010 111111 1111111110 0100111 11111110 1110101 1101111 100101 11010010 11111 11110010 0100101 0111110 101101 1111111110 0100111 11111010 1110101 11011110 110101 10111010 0111001 11110101110 111111 11111010 1111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

we, and

Anaphora

that