This is an analysis of A Love Fancy by Charles Harpur.

Night was new-throned in heaven, and we did rove
Together in the cool and shadowless haze…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 111100101101 01000111001 1101101101 1101111101 0111011101 0111010111 0101111001 0111111001 1111011101 0101011111 01110100111 1100010101 0101110111 01001111001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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