This is an analysis of Son-Days by Henry Vaughan.
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Bright shadows of true Rest! some shoots of bliss,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X ababcdcd X efefdgdg X hdhdijij
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Metre: 1 1110111101 10101 0111010000 0101 0100010111 1101110111 1101011101 1101000111 1 01010111110 0101 01010111010 0111 01001011101 101110101110 1001000101 01010101110 1 0101111100 1100 0100010111 1101 0101110101 111101010110 0101110111 00111011010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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