This is an analysis of Retirement by Henry Vaughan.

Fresh fields and woods! the Earth's fair face,
God's foot-stool, and man's dwelling-place.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXeeffgghhiiXajjffhh
  • Stanza lengths: 28,
  • Metre: 11110111 11111101 111101010 010001010 10011010 01111101 11110101 111100111 010100111 01011111 11001101 11010011 11111001 01010101 10010001 01101001 110010101 111101001 01011101 10011001 11011011 01001100 11011101 10011101 110110101 10111001 01001111 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 28

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Anaphora

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