This is an analysis of Far Away by Isaac Rosenberg.

By what pale light or moon-pale shore
Drifts my soul in lonely flight ?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dede
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11111111 1110101 10111010 1110101 10101101 0010001 1101101 1110111 1011101 1110101 0011001 1010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

and, no, far