This is an analysis of Downward, Through The Blooming Roofage by Charles Harpur.

Downward, through the blooming roofage
Of a lonely forest bower,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XababcXc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 10101010 00101010 10101010 101010 11101010 0010101 10101010 10101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8