This is an analysis of Spring, 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg.

Slow, rigid, is this masquerade
That passes as through a difficult air :…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcabc deedeeXdcadca
  • Stanza lengths: 6,13,
  • Metre: 11000101 1101101001 10010010 1111110101 1011011001 100101010 11001001 1101011001 1100011 1101010011 1001111111 100101 11010101 10111111 1101011 0101111101 1101111111 0111011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

her, that