This is an analysis of The Tree Of Rivelin by Ebenezer Elliott.

The lightning, like an Arab, cross'd
The moon's dark path on high,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddedeaaaaefefdgdgXeXe
  • Stanza lengths: 28,
  • Metre: 01011101 011111 1111001011 011101 11010101 010111 11110101 110101 11010111 011101 11111111 1100001 110010100 010001 011101101 111101 11111101 110111 01111111 010101 01000101 011101 011110111 110111 10010011 0101010 01010111 1101110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the