This is an analysis of The Old Year by Henry Kendall.
IT PASSED like the breath of the night-wind away,
It fled like a mist at the dawn of the day;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddaa ddee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01101001101 01101101001 01001011011 01001001001 01001101101 01101001000 0101001111 01001001011 01101101001 1101011001 01001001101 01001101001 01101101001 11001011101 01101011101 11001111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
it, of, its, on, and
Anaphora
it
Anadiplosis
years
