This is an analysis of The Flight Of Peace by Charles Harpur.

TRUST and Treachery, Wisdom, Folly,
Madness, Mirth and Melancholy,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gggg ccffaacX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,8,
  • Metre: 111001010 10111010 11101110 11101110 10101110 11101010 10101010 10100110 00101010 10101010 11101010 10111010 01101110 10101010 11101010 10111010 10111110 10101010 10101010 10011110 10101010 00101010 101110 1111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 24

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Anaphora

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