This is an analysis of The Sign by Frederic Manning.
We are here in a wood of little beeches:
And the leaves are like black lace…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaX AB cXadeX dbbceXXXAB
- Stanza lengths: 3,2,6,10,
- Metre: 11100101010 1011111 010101 110110 0101 000011110101 11010100111 100010101 011110110011001 011 1010010 1111010 001001010101 10110011 101011101 10010011101 1001001001 1011010 110110 0101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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