This is an analysis of The Wanderer by Henry Austin Dobson.

Love comes back to his vacant dwelling,—
The old, old Love that we knew of yore!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ABba abABXabbaA
  • Stanza lengths: 4,10,
  • Metre: 111001010 011111101 111110101 00111101010 1111011010 111111101 111001010 011111101 1111101010 110101001 1011101111 00101011110 111001010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

his, he

Anaphora

he