This is an analysis of The Old Song by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
A livid sky on London
And like the iron steeds that rear…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdbAbaab aefe Xcedghg fabaheaXgXg XfhfXfdaha gXXfXffAdhd
- Stanza lengths: 11,4,7,11,10,11,
- Metre: 0101110 11010111 0101010 1110111 1101110110011101 11010101010111 11010101101101 11010111010101 010111010101010 1 01000101111111 11010101 011111 11010101 110111 11010101010010 111 01010100110101 11010101101101 1011100011011 0101000101010001 01011101010001 11010110 111101 10010111 010001 11110101010101 01 11011101110101 11110111111111 10101011010001 0101010111001100 010101010010101 1111010 010001 10111010 10101110 1101010101111100 010001000100010 11010101101101 1010101010100 1011110111011101 11011101110101 0111011 10111010 1101011 1111011 01010010111010101 01000101010001 11010101101101 1010100010001 101010101010101 11100101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
and, broken, down, london, town, of, melt, away, break, bend, rust, at
Anaphora
and