This is an analysis of The House Of Colour by Francis Joseph Sherman.
Fine gold is here; yea, heavy yellow gold,
Gathered ere Earth’s first days and nights were fled;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaX aaabc Xbcbc
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 1101110101 1011111101 1101110101 10001010111 011011100 1101000111 1011101111 1111010101 1101110101 0100010001 010111111 01000010101 0101111111 1011010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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