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,…

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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

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