This is an analysis of The Apparition: A Retrospect by Herman Melville.
Convulsions came; and, where the field
Long slept in pastoral green,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXab cdbbd decce
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 01011101 1101001 010101100 10111101 111101 01000111 01000101 11011100 11110101 011111 11100001 0101001 111111001 11110101 0101101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Anaphora
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