This is an analysis of Sitting By The Fire by Henry Kendall.
Barren Age and withered World!
Oh! the dying leaves,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABCDCABEBAFGFEHBH iEHJHkcccifdFEHJH XEHJHXkbkifgFEHJH iEHJHglXlgfbFEHJH XABCDCABEBAFGFEHBH
- Stanza lengths: 17,17,17,17,18,
- Metre: 1011101 10101 101001 10101 100101 1011111 10101 10101010 10101 1011101 100101 1110101 10101 101010 10001 10101 10011 1010111 101010 10001 10101 10001 0010101 100111 1011101 10001 1111101 10101 1000101 10101 101010 10001 10101 10001 1010111 101010 10001 10101 10001 10101000 10111 1010101 111001 10101101 100101 1111101 10101 101010 10001 10101 10001 1010011 101010 10001 10101 10001 1010101 10111 1010101 11101 1010101 110001 1111101 10101 101010 10001 10101 10001 1011101 10101 101001 10101 100101 1011111 10101 10101010 10101 1011101 100101 1110101 10101 101010 10001 10101 10011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 87
Anaphora
sitting, twenty, forty, sixty, when
