This is an analysis of The Fallen Star by George Darley.
A star is gone! a star is gone!
There is a blank in Heaven;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dede afaf ghgh ifif jfjf Xaja
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01010101 1001010 100101011 0101010 110101010 111101 110100010 110101 11010011 000101 11000111 110101 11010101 010001 11010001 110101 01010101 100101 11010101 110011 11000101 010101 10010101 110101 00110001 110101 01010101 100101 01011100 0100010 11010101 1111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Anaphora
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