This is an analysis of Afterwards by Arthur Henry Adams.
NOW that our pathways sever here,
And mine slopes down across the night,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababaabbbbbbcdcdccbbbbbb EaeaEecfcfccGbgbGgHbhbHh hbhbhhFifiFX
- Stanza lengths: 24,24,12,
- Metre: 11111101 11110101 11111101 01010101 11111101 11111111 11110111 01111101 111100101 11011101 1111111 11011100 11010111 01010101 11010011 11111111 11110101 11010111 11010001 00111110 11111001 010011100 11010001 11001111 01010001 111101001 110100011 01010111 01010001 01001101 010011101 101110000 11111101 11111111 01001101 11010011 11110101 11110111 10010101 11011101 11110101 11110101 11110101 01010001 01110111 01011111 11110101 01010100 01010001 11110011 11011001 0101101 01110101 11010010 10111101 11111101 01000101 01111111 10111101 11111100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
have, and, of, you, your, narrow
Anaphora
the, until