This is an analysis of A Similitude by Charles Harpur.
FAIR as the night—when all the astral fires
Of heaven are burning in the clear expanse,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11011101010 01011000101 1101011111 10010111010 11010010101 1101010101 1101010101 10010010010 1101010101 1001010111 1101010101 1001111101 1111110011 111101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
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