This is an analysis of Emblems by Charles Harpur.

A STREAMLET is a bright and beauteous creature
In some wide desert, where it keeps apart…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacc dbbdee
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 01000111010 0111010101 011001 01010001010 1011010111 111101 11110001010 01000011011 110001 01001100010 0101000111 1011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Anaphora

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