This is an analysis of The Horses Of Achilles by George Meredith.

[Iliad, B. XVII. V. 426]
So now the horses of Aiakides, off wide of the war-ground,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abcXdeXXecbXXadXXXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,22,
  • Metre: 1001111 110100100110011 111101011001011 1110010011011010 11110100011010 1101110010011111 1100010010110010 1011110010010010 101101001001010 1101001010011011 1001111010010110 1011111010010011 1010111001010010 101101010010111 101100111011010 1111001110010011 1101001010110011 1000111111110010 11101101010010 10111101110110 1011011110110111 1111010110110011 11011110100111100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

of, their, ye