This is an analysis of The Sun-Dial by Henry Austin Dobson.
'Tis an old dial, dark with many a stain;
In summer crowned with drifting orchard bloom,…
Structure
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- Stanza lengths:
- Metre:
- Closest metre:
- Guessed form:
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 65
Repeated words/phrases
with, in, here, her, to
Anaphora
and, i, the
