This is an analysis of The Hidden City by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.

It was the schooner Desperate
That sailed the southern sea,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefXf cgagaXgb XhXhXhiX jXhXgjXj iaiXjhjh cXaegdXb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 01010100 110101 10101101010 011010 10011101 1110101 11011111 010101 1111110 1101101 11111101 1111001 110110101 011111 1101010101 1010111 11100110 1110111 111110111 1111101 110100110 10101001 11111101 1101010 10010101 111011 1001010101 010111 11011111 110111 110100101 110101 110111111 110101 11011101 1111101 10110101 110101 111111011 111111 11011011010 111101 110100101 1011111 11111111 111010 001111111 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 48

Repeated words/phrases

her, ', had, your, and, no

Anaphora

and