This is an analysis of The Bard Of Breffney by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
Withered with years and broken by Time's play
I still do live, who only seek to lay…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff gghhcciiee cchhjjffffbb iikkffhhhhffiikkffii iicciiccccccllffbbmmhh nbeebbiinnbbooaakkXfff ccddmmbbiiffiioopekkccii bbbbcchhffmmeehXqqeebb ccaaooeeccff kkaaiibbbbppooeXddaahh bbkkoobbooggppXa
- Stanza lengths: 12,10,12,20,22,22,24,22,12,22,16,
- Metre: 1000110111 1111110101 1101111101 1011000111 11011010001 1111111110 1101010111 0101111111 1101000100 1111010101 1111110101 1111000101 1011010111 0111111111 1101110011 1101011101 1001011111 0011110111 11011101001 1101111101 10101011100 1101110111 1111010101 1101010101 1101110001 1111111001 1111110101 1111010101 1111010111 1101100101 0101010101 1101110101 1111010101 10110100101 0101101001 1001010101 1110010101 1101001101 111010101 1101010111 1110100101 0111110111 0101110101 1101110101 1011111101 1101010101 1111000101 1011110101 1111010001 1001110101 1111100101 1011010101 0011010111 0101110101 0101111111 0111101011 1111011101 1011101101 1101010101 1011110101 1101011101 1101010011 1010110111 0101110111 1111000101 1111110101 1101100101 1111110001 1001011111 1111010101 11110010101 0101010011 1101011101 1001110001 1001110111 0101010101 1111010111 1001111101 1101110101 0111011101 1111000101 1101011001 1101010101 1101010101 0100010011 1111110101 1011110111 0101011001 1001011111 0101010101 1001110101 1101110111 0111110101 0101010101 0111101010 1101010101 1101011101 0101100101 1111010101 01001110101 1111010101 0111000111 1001110101 1110110101 0110110101 1011110001 1101011101 1111110111 0101011001 0101010101 0100010101 0101110111 1111110111 11000010101 1101010101 1110100001 1101110100 1101011001 11010101001 1111110101 0101010101 0110111001 1011011111 0110110101 0101011101 1101111101 0111011001 0110011111 1101010101 1111001101 1101010101 1110110011 1111011111 1111010001 1011110000 1101110101 1111000101 1111010101 1101011001 1101010101 0111010101 1111110101 11110011001 01001110101 1101111111 1101000101 0101110001 1111010101 1111010101 01010110101 1111010101 0111000111 1111110111 0111110101 1101010101 1101111001 1101011101 0111010101 1111010001 1101010101 1101010111 10010100101 1111011111 1111000101 0111010101 1011111111 1111010101 1111111101 1111000011 0111010111 0101010111 0100110110 0101011111 01010101001 1110110001 1100100101 1101010011 1111110111 1011111101 1111010011 1101010101 0011011111 0011100101 1011111101 0101110111 11101010101 1111111111 1001011111 1011101111 1111110101 1111010101 1111111101 1011010101 0101111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 196
Repeated words/phrases
i, of, my, she, who, her, his, to, with, and
Anaphora
she, and, to, that
Anadiplosis
dumb
