This is an analysis of A Meditation by Herman Melville.
How often in the years that close,
When truce had stilled the sieging gun,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc daeadd fgdghh bidihebe bbibjiX efdfdd eiXXkk lblXbaa fibXejX dcXclfjf
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,8,7,6,6,7,7,8,
- Metre: 11000011 11110101 01010111 0100100111 0101010101 11111110001 11010101 11010001 100011101 11000101 0101010101 11010100101 11010101 01010111 01010101 11110101 1101110101 1011010101 011111011 11010101 11001101 111001 11110101 01 11111101 11 11000111 01000011 01110101 10110111 0101111010 1 11010101110 01010111 11010111 11010101 11110101 1101100101 11010100101 11111101 01010111 11011111 11001100 1111110111 0101110101 10110111 01000101 1101001010 1 01111101 11010101101 11011100001 01011011 010100101 01110101 11100110 1101011100 110111110 10 11111101 10010101 111111010 11110101 110110101 11 10010110010 1
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 67
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