This is an analysis of The Plains by George Essex Evans.
WIDE are the plains—the plains that stretch to the west
An ocean of trackless waste, untrodden and rude,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bdbd eaea bfbf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010111001 110010110011 111011101111 101100010101 11010111011 10100111101 11011100101 011111101011 11011011111 101111100101 110101111111 1101101001001 11010111101 1010010100101 101010010101 101010110101 111110100111 0110010100101 1101110111101 010010101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Anaphora
and
