This is an analysis of In The Desert by Ernest Favenc.

A cloudless sky o’erhead, and all around
The level country stretching like a sea—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX abab acac abab dede fbfb adad ghgh ibib
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0101101101 0101010101 0111111101 0101000100 1101101101 11011011110 1111110111 1100010 1101101111 0011111011 1101010111 0111010 0111011101 0011110011 11011101001 010011 0111011101 0101010001 1011011101 01001 100110011 0101010001 1111100101 100101 1011111101 1101011100 1001011101 111101 1101011101 1011010011 1111110101 110001 1001001101 0101011101 1100010111 0111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

in

Anaphora

the