This is an analysis of Venice by Christopher Pearse Cranch.

WHILE the skies of this northern November
Scowl down with a darkening menace,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbXbcdcddadabebfXgcgbdbdcacaddddehehcdcdhbhbhahahahafafa
  • Stanza lengths: 60,
  • Metre: 1010010010 110010010 110011010 110010010 1010111010 110010010 10110101100 010010010 1010010010 010111010 110011010 111110010 1111101010 111111010 0011011010 011010010 111111010 011011010 1110110110 10011001 111011000 110011110 110010010 110110110 1111011011 010011010 1100101101 111011010 0010010110 010010010 1101100010 011111010 1010010110 011011110 011011010 010111010 110010110 010110010 010101110 010011010 1011011010 010010110 110011010 111110010 010010010 010110011 010110010 010010111 110110110 010110010 111010010 110010010 110011010 110100110 010011010 111110110 010010110 011010010 010110010 110110010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 60

Repeated words/phrases

and, in, of, her

Anaphora

the, a