This is an analysis of The Master Singer by George William Russell.

A LAUGHTER in the diamond air, a music in the trembling grass;
And one by one the words of light as joydrops through my being pass:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeffgg
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 01000101010001001 1111010111011101 1101100101011001 1101110101010001 11010010101011101 1101010011011101 01001011110110101 1101010001011111 1110010101010111 0101010111010101 0101010111010101 10001000111001111 11010101100111010 011111010111010010 1001011111011101 100100101010100111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

in, , i, and, of