This is an analysis of A Common Thought by Henry Timrod.

Somewhere on this earthly planet
In the dust of flowers to be,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcb aaXX XbXb XcbX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11101010 00101000 00100011 1010111 1010010011 1010101 11101010 1010111 00111010 1110101 11101010 11101001 10100010 1010101 10101011 101010100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

in, as