This is an analysis of A Ballade Of Home by Enid Derham.

LET others prate of Greece and Rome,
And towns where they may never be,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcXCdXdXbcbC XeXbecbCXbceC
  • Stanza lengths: 16,13,
  • Metre: 11010111 11111100 01110101 11000111 01011101 011100101 1100110 11011111 110110101 11111100 01011101 01010100 11010111 01010101 01111101 11011111 01100101 11110100 11010111 01110101 10010100 11010101 11111111 11011111 10110101 11111111 01111100 11011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

her