This is an analysis of Destiny by George William Russell.

LIKE winds or waters were her ways:
The flowing tides, the airy streams,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa aaaa bccb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11110001 01010101 11011101 11010011 11110001 111101001 11011100 01010111 11000101 11010111 01010101 11010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

Anaphora

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