This is an analysis of Absence by Charles Harpur.
NIGHTLY I watch the moon with silvery sheen
Flaking the city house-tops, till I feel…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXaacacac ddeefXXXggfX
- Stanza lengths: 14,12,
- Metre: 10110101001 1001011111 11001010101 1001110001 1110001111 11110101001 11011011101 10111010001 1111011101 1101001101 1001101101 0101010101 1111011101 1011101101 010011110 110101010 1110101 1000101 111001010 1000100 10101000 101101 110111010 10101010 1110100 101110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 26
Anaphora
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