This is an analysis of When There Is Peace by Henry Austin Dobson.

“When there is Peace our land no more
Will be the land we knew of yore.”…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabba aabCXaabbaC
  • Stanza lengths: 5,11,
  • Metre: 11011111 00011101 11110101 01111111 11010101 111111001 11111111 000100001 1101 01111001 11111111 110100101 11110001 11010101 1101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 17