This is an analysis of To Richard Watson Gilder by Henry Austin Dobson.

Old friends are best! And so to you
Again I send, in closer throng,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbabaCabbXC
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11111101 01110101 1100101 11111111 11001101 11111111 1111 11111101 11010101 01011111 11111101 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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