This is an analysis of A Visit From Abroad by James Brunton Stephens.
A speck went blowing up against the sky
As little as a leaf: then it drew near…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefcc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111010101 1101011011 110100111 1111110011 0110010001 11001011011 110110101 1101110101 1101011101 1111010101 0110010001 1111010101 1101011101 11011101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, it
Anaphora
and
