This is an analysis of After Many Years by Henry Kendall.
The song that once I dreamed about,
The tender, touching thing,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca dedecfcf gfgfhihi gegefifi jajakbkb lilifmfm lflfgjgj ckckfcfc aaaahnhnXcfcfmbmb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 01111101 110101 110010101 110111 00110001 111101 11001101 100101 00110101 1101001 11011001 100101 11010101 110101 11000101 111101 11110101 110101 11011101 1111001 110001001 110111 01000111 110101 11010101 110111 11111111 111101 01000101 110101 11110101 111101 10010001 110101 01010101 110101 11011101 100111 01010011 110001 11000101 111101 0101011011 111100 11000101 110111 11010111 110101 11111011 110101 01110101 110101 11010101 110101 11110101 110101 11110101 110101 01010111 110001 01010001 110101 01001101 110101 01010001 101111 01010101 111101 11110101 110101 01111101 101001 10011101 110101 11011101 110001 11010101 111101 11010011 111101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 80
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
the, i, and
