This is an analysis of Etesia Absent by Henry Vaughan.

Love, the world's life! What a sad death
Thy absence is to lose our breath…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffdXggffhh
  • Stanza lengths: 22,
  • Metre: 10111011 11000111 11110101 01010101 01111101 11010011 10010111 01110110 00011101 01011101 110010111 01111101 11110011 11011101 10010101 0101110 11110101 110110111 11111011 10111111 11111111 11111011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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