This is an analysis of After Paul Verlaine-Iii by Ernest Christopher Dowson.
SPLEEN
Around were all the roses red,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X ab ab cc cc dcXdc
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,2,2,2,5,
- Metre: 1 01010101 01010111 11110111 11110101 11110101 01111101 11111111 10100101 111100101 11000111 01010101 01010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
too, of
Anaphora
of
