This is an analysis of Benedictine by Arthur Symons.
The Benedictine scents and stains
the languor of your pallid lips;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba aaAX cddc AXaa edde
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01010111 01001101 11100111 010100101 111111010 010111010 010011010 0101101010 11111111 11111101 10000100 11011101 010011010 100101010 111101010 110111010 110101001 11011101 01111101 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
lips, your, of
Anaphora
the
