This is an analysis of On The Future Of Poetry by Henry Austin Dobson.

Bards of the Future! you that come
With striding march, and roll of drum,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXXccdXeebXffffXbgghhaaXXeeiijjhhddkk
  • Stanza lengths: 40,
  • Metre: 10010111 01011101 10110100 01110100 11001101 01110100 000101010 000101010 01000101 01010100 01000101 01110111 11110001 01011000 11010101 01100101 11010111 11011100 10011111 11010101 11010101 11110111 11110011 11110111 11111101 11011001 11010101 11001100 10111101 00010101 11011101 01011101 11110101 01110111 01110101 10110101 10011101 01110101 11110110 11011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 40

Anaphora

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