This is an analysis of Son-Days by Henry Vaughan.

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Bright shadows of true Rest! some shoots of bliss,…

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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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