This is an analysis of Finality by Charles Harpur.
A HEAVY and desolate sense of life
Is all the Past makes mine—and still…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaccb dedfXe cgchhg hchccc hghhhg ifihhf jhjeeh XcXeeX cicbbi cgchhj kbkllbXhchbbc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 0101100101 01011111 01010101 0101 0101 11111100 11001101 11111101 11111111 0101 1100 01010101 01010100 11110101 11011101 0101 1101 01001101 1010100101 11000111 01011111 0101 0101 01010011 11010111 1101101 10111011 1101 0101 01110000 10010101 11110111 11011101 0101 0101 01011111 11111101 11110111 101101101 1111 0111 11010101 01010101 01110111 1010101010 1001 0111 110110100 11010111 01001101 11010001 0101 1101 11111101 11111100 110100111 11010001 1111 1100 01010111 11010101 01110101 1101001001 0101 1101 11100101 11010101 11010101 11000101 1101 1101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
of
Anaphora
of, i, all