This is an analysis of On A Distant View Of The Village And School Of The Harrow Hill by George Gordon Byron.

Oh! mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos.~Virgil
Ye scenes of my childhood, whose lov'd recollection…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcX dbdb dede dXXa Xdad fbfX eXeXXefef
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11010010011001000 110111111010 10000101001 1101110100010 11001101001 110110010010 01101011011 110011110010 11001011010 011010011110 01111101111 011111011010 0110011110001 0110111101110 101011111111 110110011110 01011001101 1111010100010 1110111010100 1011111100100 11011001101 111111011000 111001011001 1101110111010 101011101001 110111111011 10011001011 111010111011 11011001010 010111010011 11101001010 1101000010011 11001001011 101010001011 11101011001 1011010011011 11001111001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 37

Repeated words/phrases

to, where, we, i, of

Anaphora

the