This is an analysis of Breathing-Time by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
Peace, perfect peace. . . . Come, lay aside your gun.
The danger zone is past; the gauntlet run.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb Xcccaadd cceeffgg ffeeffff gXddddcc ccgghhaa ffffaaXX gghhiidX aajjhh
- Stanza lengths: 6,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,6,
- Metre: 1011110111 0101010101 0101010101 1110010111 101010111 1111010101 1101101111 1101001101 1001101101 1111011101 1101111101 1101011111 11001001101 11110101001 1111110001 0101111100 0101110101 1101111001 0101010001 1111100101 11001110001 1111010001 01111010101 1101001001 11011110111 1111010001 0100010111 1101111100 0110011111 1111110001 1101010101 10010101100 1001100111 11001010101 1111110111 1111110101 1101000101 1111000101 1001110111 1111010101 1101111001 1101110101 1110110100 1111111101 1111111101 1001110101 1001010111 1100010101 0101010111 0101010111 1101011101 100110011 1101110001 1001011001 1101011111 0101011001 1100110001 0111010001 10010010101 1111010101 1011011101 1011101110 1011110101 1101000101 1001110111 1101010001 1101010101 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 76
Repeated words/phrases
your, of, to, years, and
Anaphora
the, ten, to, that
