This is an analysis of A Poet To... by Charles Harpur.
Long ere I knew thee—years of loveless days,
A shape would gather from my dreams, and pour…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababccdadaee fghgii iaiXXa dadaeX cgcgaa dadaff jkjkll mfmhcc
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1111100101 0111001111 01110000101 0011010001 1111010101 1001010011 1111001101 11010001010 1100111101 01010111110 1101010101 01001001101 1111111101 010111001 110111010 011010000101 10100010101 0101100101 1101101101 0111010101 0111011101 10110001000 1101010111 1001110100101 1101000101 1001011111 0101100101 1101011101 1111111101 1001001111101 1001010101 0111110101 0011111101 011000101001 10001010111 1111010101001 1111011101 11010111111 1110010001 1111110101 1101110110 110111010111 0101011101 1001011101 0111101101 1011010011 11110101110 111111011100 1111110001 1101111101 11001001101 1110010100 1101011101 100101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
my, of
Anaphora
i, of
Anadiplosis
thine
