This is an analysis of A Basket Of Summer Fruit by Charles Harpur.
First see those ample melons-brindled o'er
With mingled green and brown is all the rind;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd eaea bfbf gfgf dfdf hfhf cici adad gjgj cXci
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110101010 0101110101 1111110101 11010010011 1111000111 10011000101 100001110111 010010101 1111010001 0111010001 11001010001 1101001101 0111011101 1011110111 1011000101 1101000101 1111001101 110100110001 1101010001 1101010101 0111010001 001100101010 0101000101 01010001010 111111001010 0100110101 101011100110 1101001101 1111110101 11010100010 0101110001 11010100010 1101101100 010011101001 0100010101 11010001001 1101001101 11011010101 11000100001 1011010111 11010100010 1111010100 10000011010 1000100100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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