This is an analysis of The House Of Music by Francis Joseph Sherman.

Such space there is, such endless breadth of time
Between me and my world of yesterday,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaa bbaXc Xcccc
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
  • Metre: 1110110101 0111110101 1101111011 01110111111 1011010101 1011110101 1111110101 11001011101 11010111110 11110111001 1101100110 11110101010 110100101001 0101110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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