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…
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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