This is an analysis of Songs Of The Autumn Nights by George MacDonald.
I.
O night, send up the harvest moon…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcbX cdcd ebeb cfcf X gaga acac hchc gaga X didi bjbj fkfk bfbf X dada acc acc hXhdXgfgf
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,3,3,9,
- Metre: 1 11110101 010101 11011101 110111 01010101 100101 11010101 01111 11010101 101101 010011101 010101 11110101 100101 01011111 110101 1 11011101 111011 110100101 1100101 01111111 011101 01011001 010101 010110001 110101 01010001 010101 11100101 111101 01011101 110111 1 01010101 110101 01010101 110101 11011111 111111 01010111 010111 11010101 010101 11001111 011101 11011101 110111 111100101 110101 1 10110111 111111 11111101 111101 1 1111101 111111 1 1111111 111101 11110101 110110 110100111 111111 11111101 011101 11111101 111111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 21
- Lines: 73
Repeated words/phrases
in, i, no, my
Anaphora
a, the, i
