This is an analysis of Under The Figtree by Henry Kendall.
Like drifts of balm from cedared glens, those darling memories come,
With soft low songs, and dear old tales, familiar to our home.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefXeeeecceeddfX
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 1101010011101001 01111111010011 11011101110111 111101001100111 01000101110101 11110101111111 11111101110101 01011101110111 11011101110101 110100001010001 11011101110101 11010010101011 11011101010101 11010101110101 11010101010111 11010101110101 11010101110101 11111001110101 11011101110101 01010101110100 11010101011111 110101011111001 10011101110101 1101111101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, my, i
Anaphora
when, and
