This is an analysis of After The Fashion Of An Old Emblem by George MacDonald.
I have long enough been working down in my cellar,
Working spade and pick, boring-chisel and drill;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc dcXc XeXe cfcf XgXg ghgh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110101010110 10111101011 11110101011110 1001110010001 1101010010110 00101010101001 0010001000101010 0010001101001 101100110111 1111101110101 011010101010 111100111111 11110101010110 10110011110001 1111011101100 1100010111101 11111001101010 111111011001 1011000101010 0101011110101 11111100100111 11011011111010 1010101011011110 10110101010010 11111111010 1011110111 110101101110 101010010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, in, of, i, to, my, keep
Anaphora
in
Epiphora
blowing
