This is an analysis of Aphrodite by George William Russell.

NOT unremembering we pass our exile from the starry ways:
One timeless hour in time we caught from the long night of endless days.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeffaagg
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 1100001111100101 11010011100110101 010100111011101 0111010101111101 1101100111010101 1101011101011100 1101010111100100 01010011101010101 1101010101100101 1111010111110111 11111100101000111 0101101111010101 1101010111000101 1001011111010110 1001001101000101 1101011101011111 1100010111010111 110010100010101001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

, and

Anaphora

for, and, one