This is an analysis of Of Old, On Her Terrace At Evening by Christopher John Brennan.

Of old, on her terrace at evening
— not here — in some long-gone kingdom…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXaXceffXcXdaaebac
  • Stanza lengths: 21,
  • Metre: 011010110 11011110 1101001 11111010 1011010010 01011110 101101101 010010 111010011 1101101 1101111 110110011 110110111 01001101 1011101 11010010 101001110 101001 11011110 011010110 1101001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

it, that, in

Epiphora

world