This is an analysis of The Reconciliation by Eugene Field.

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When you were mine, in auld lang syne,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a Xbab a XXcX a deae a cfXf a beXe a Xdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Metre: 1 11010111 111111110 11011111 1100101010 1 01111101 1101010010 010110001 111111010 1 10010101 111111010 11010101 110100010 1 11001100 110111110 11111001 111111010 1 10110101 111111010 110011101 100101010 1 11011101 110111110 11111111 110100010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 12
  • Lines: 30

Anaphora

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