This is an analysis of The Ravaged Villa by Herman Melville.
In shards the sylvan vases lie,
Their links of dance undone,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXb
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 01010101 110101 11010111 110001 01000101 0111010 11010101 1111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Anaphora
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