This is an analysis of Rondeau by Henry Austin Dobson.
In after days when grasses high
O'er-top the stone where I shall lie,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba aabC aXbXaC
- Stanza lengths: 5,4,6,
- Metre: 01011101 101011111 11110101 110101001 11110101 11110101 11110111 11011111 0101 11110111 11111101 10110101 01110111 011111001 0101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
i, not
Anaphora
i