This is an analysis of Born Before His Time by James Brunton Stephens.
Brown was weeping; likewise cursing; and with amplitude of reason;
For a letter had been handed him that very afternoon…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa abab cdcd efef ghXh Xccc aaXa ijijcXXf ck ck dbdb eaea Xalal dmdm nfnf acac cdcd iXii ajaj XoXo iXXc gigi lflf giXi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,2,2,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110111010101010 101010101110101 11110100101010 101110101010011 0010101110110010 0010101011100001 010111001101010 101000101100101 1111101010101110 001000101010101 1010001010101010 101110111010111 1111101000101010 101010101110101 1010101010101010 011001100010001 10100001010000010 111010111010001 1110101010001000 111011100110101 10101011010111000 111011100100011 111101010101010 0010101010101001 1011101100101010 001010100110101 1010001000101000 0010101000110001 1111111101001010 01010111010101 1010101011101010 101011111010011 1110111011000110 1110111010101001 1111011000101000 111000100110011 111110010101010 01011101110111 1010111111111010 101010101110111 1111001010111010 11001101010101 1110001010101010 101110101010111 110011010111010 111000100110101 1010101000101110 111111100110111 11 1011111100100010 101111101010101 10101011111010010 101011101010111 1010111110100010 0111101110010111 1110111010100010 111000100010111 1010101010100110 101000100010101 1110101000111010 101010101010001 1010101010101010 111110111010101 1111101011101010 111010110010111 010101010101110 1010010100110011 0110001011100010 11111111110011 00111001110101010 101111100010111 10101010110011010 1011111000010101 1111110111001010 1010100101011011 111101000111010 11010100010111 1011111110101000 111110111111111 1110111111001110 101011100010101 1110011001100010 1110010000101100 1000011010100100 101010101010101 1010101010101010 001011101010101 1010111010100010 101110101110101 11111010101000100 01010100010001 11101010101000100 01000100010101 1010011010111010 101110111010101 1010101011101100 111000101110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 24
- Lines: 98
Repeated words/phrases
been, had, in, and, his, of, i, man
Anaphora
i, when, and, brown
