This is an analysis of Meeting by George Crabbe.

MY Damon was the first to wake
   The gentle flame that cannot die;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dedefXff
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 11010101 11011101 11000101 11010101 01010101 11001101 10011101 10010101 10011101 11110101 110100111 110100110 111100101 10010110 111101001 11111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Anaphora

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