This is an analysis of Past Hours by Frances Anne Kemble.

Two angels have them in eternal keeping.
He that beside the deep vaults of the past…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbcbbcdddd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11010001010 1101011001 10010101010 1100000011 0101011111 1001011101 1111011100 1101011101 0111010111 110010010111 01011111110 1111111101 1111110001 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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