This is an analysis of An Old Master by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
We were cartin' lathes and palin's from the slopes of Mount St. Leonard,
With our axles near the road-bed and the mud as stiff as glue;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb aaXa deee fagX Xhdh cXXX Xcch ehXh Xigi Xfgf Xjgj XdiXXchdh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1010111000101110 011010111011111 11101001011101010 110110101110101 0110101000101110 111010101010011 1110111010001010 111010100011001 1011000010101010 111000111010101 1011101010111010 101010101010001 1000111011111010 1010110101010101 1111101010101010 10111100111011 10111010101011010 101010101010101 1011101010111110 111110101010101 1011101010100010 101010101111101 1011111011111110 111010101011111 1110101010101010 001010101110100 1010111010101010 111011101111101 1111101010101010 011111101011001 1110101010111110 101010101110111 111010101011101100 111011101001111 1110101011101010 111111111010101 1010101010111010 101011101010101 1110111000101110 111010101010101 1110101110100110 101110101110011 1001101011101010 101000101010001 1110101010101100 101010101110001 1111100010011010 10111001000111010 1010111011101010 101010101010101 0111101010111010 101110101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
and, our, of, we, he, ', heard, in, his, it
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
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