This is an analysis of Interlude: The Window And The Hearth by Christopher John Brennan.

Twice now that lucid fiction of the pane
dissolves, the sphere that winter's crystal bane…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbccddeeaafXggbbhhii jjXdjjaaddhhbbffkkffffkkkkdd
  • Stanza lengths: 22,28,
  • Metre: 1111010001 0101110101 1101011000 11010001001 1001010111 1101110101 1101100111 0011010111 011110001101 11010100001 1101010111 1101000101 1111010101 11111101100 01010101101 11011010101 11001010101 111010111101 0101100101 1101111101 1101011101 11001010100 10010010101 0011010101 0101010110 0111010101 11011001010 11111101010 0111100101 0101010101 1100110101 1111110101 1101010101 010010011011 1001011101 0101010101 1011110101 11011100101 0100010101 0101010101 0101000101 1001110101 010011101 1101011111 1101011101 0011001101 1000111101 01011101011 1101010101 1010010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 50

Repeated words/phrases

and, her

Anaphora

and