This is an analysis of A Lament by Charles Harpur.
Flowers in their freshness are flushing the earth,
And the voice-peopled forest is loud in its mirth,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbbc dddc eeeC fffX aaag dddX dddC hhhe iiigXhhhC
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10011011001 101101001001 11011011011 1110010 101111101101 01011001011 10011101011 1110010 111010011001 101011001101 101101111111 1010110 1001101001 11010011011 1001011101 10110 1011101011 01111101001 101001001101 0101110 010101111101 11011101001 111001111011 1010011 1111101011 101001001001 1111011111 110110 0101011100 1101001011 11011001011 10110 11111101011 11011011011 11001101001 0010010 1111001011 1010011010011 101001111101 1010111 11011001101 1011101011 1111011001 10110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
in, who, mary, of
Anaphora
and, or, betwixt, who, as
