This is an analysis of The Seekers by Francis Joseph Sherman.
Is it very long ago things were as they are
Now? or was it ever? or is it to be?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abAX c dcd be be efX f bgbg hihi c dcd Aj aj kak Xa
- Stanza lengths: 4,1,3,2,2,3,1,4,4,1,3,2,2,3,2,
- Metre: 001010110111 11101010000 101011110111 101010110100 10110011111 101010010101 101010011101 101110110101 11101111111 11110111101 101010111101 1111101010100 101101111101 10110111101 101110010100 10010110001 1010101010111 11110010111 101010110111 111110110111 101011101100 110101101001 101011110111 111010110101 101011111101 01101111101 01101101101 111010110111 101011110111 10111010001 100110110111 101010111101 1000111010101 1010001101001 111110110101 1010110110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
it, we, that, came
Anaphora
the
