This is an analysis of To A Greek Girl by Henry Austin Dobson.
WITH breath of thyme and bees that hum,
Across the years you seem to come,—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXbcbX ddeebfbX bbbbgfgX bbgghchX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 01011111 01001101 01000111 11111000 01011101 01001100 01011101 0100110 10111011 11010101 10111011 11010101 11111011 11110111 11010111 110110 11011111 01010101 11010101 01010101 01010101 110100101 01101111 011110 01010001 1110101 11111101 11110011 01011001 01010100 01010101 010110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
where, you, er, in, of, dream
Anaphora
across, a
