This is an analysis of The World by Henry Vaughan.
1 I saw Eternity the other night,
2 Like a great ring of pure and endless light,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabbccddeeffXX ggghhaaccijXbii aaabbXXeXeekkij lllaaiicciieecX
- Stanza lengths: 15,15,15,15,
- Metre: 11101000101 11011011101 1111011 111010101010 11101 11011110101 1110101 10101000101 10101 11101010101 111001 101110101010 110110 11101110101 10101 10101010111 11011111111 1101111 10101110101 10101 11101010001 1011011 111001110101 11101 11101011101 11100 11011011100 10111 10101111111 11011 10101010101 11101011011 1011001 11111110111 10101 11010110101 1111101 10111011101 11110 11101000111 11101 101011100101 11101 1110111101 11100 11111010111 11111110001 1111111 11111100111 10111 10101111101 1010101 10110011101 11101 10111110110 11111 11110110101 11101 110101101101 1110100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
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