This is an analysis of The Year’s Progress by Frances Anne Kemble.
I look along the dusty dreary way,
So lately strew'd with blossoms fresh and gay,—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc cbcbddeeaa aabb ffddggXXff hhiijjXbbhh
- Stanza lengths: 6,10,4,10,11,
- Metre: 1101010101 11010010111 0101000101 11010111001 1101010100 1111010001 11010100001 1011001101 1101011101 1101010001 0111010101 0111010001 1001110100 1011110101 1101010001 11010011101 1011010101 10011000111 0101011101 1101010101 10110001001 1011010111 0111110101 10010101101 1101010001 10111101101 101101001010 10010010101 10110001101 1100110101 1001010111 1101010101 1001010111 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1011010111 100110101001 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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