This is an analysis of Dora by Charles Harpur.

It was, I well remember, the merry springtime when
Young Dora in the eventide came singing up the glen,…

Read full poem

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aaee XXee
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,
  • Metre: 0111010010111 11000100110101 10111011110101 001010100110111 01010110111101 11111101110011 1100111101111 101011101011101 1101010110111 101010111110101 1101011110101 110011111110101 1101110111100 11011101110101 1101011110101 001110111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

happy, that, had

Anaphora

all