This is an analysis of A Prayer For The Past: Now Far From My Old Northern Land, by George MacDonald.
Now far from my old northern land,
I live where gentle winters pass;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef agag hihi hdhd jdjdX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 11011101 11110101 11110101 110001 11011101 010100111 110100101 010101 01011011 11110101 110101001 010001 100110111 1100101101 010010111 011001 01011101 111000111 11011101 100111 10111101 11110001 11111101 100101 11111101 110101001 11010101 110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 31
Anaphora
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