This is an analysis of The Pleiades by Arthur Henry Adams.

LAST night I saw the Pleiades again,
Faint as a drift of steam…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcAbc decdec afeafe agfAgf ahiahi
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1111010101 110101 011101 1101011101 011101 111101 1101011101 110111 110001 1111111101 111101 011101 1111010111 0101010 010011 1101010111 0111001 1111001 1111010101 1001001 111111 1101011101 110111 111101 0101010111 111101 110111 1111110101 011101 011110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 34

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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