This is an analysis of Mount Erebus: (A Fragment) by Henry Kendall.
A MIGHTY theatre of snow and fire,
Girt with perpetual Winter, and sublime…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXXefgegXheeXgiihedf Xgcddjddkgfefla iXccgifbjdkclbee
- Stanza lengths: 24,15,16,
- Metre: 01010001110 10010010101 1100110101 1111010111 1011110001 1011011101 1101110111 01001010101 11000101001 0111010101 1101010101 1111110111 01010101110 1011110001 1101010100 1100111101 0101111000 0101001101 0100010111 01110100101 1101111111 1001010101 11010110001 1111010100 1101100101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0111110101 11010101011 0101110101 0101110101 01100111001 0101010111 0100010111 0101111101 0101010100 1001000101 10010001010 110110111 0101110101 01110100001 11010100101 0110000101 0111010100 1111110111 1101111111 0101010101 100100111 11001010001 0101010111 1101100101 01110001001 1101010101 1101010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 55
Repeated words/phrases
of, and
Anaphora
and, whose
