This is an analysis of New Chum And Old Monarch by James Brunton Stephens.
“Chieftain, enter my verandah;
Sit not in the blinding glare;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbcb dede Xfgf hchc egeX ijij XhXh ihi h ikik jljl XmnX abab dede gmXm eeee ogXg onon boXo eeeX bjbj Xglg pbpb bqbq ekekXjgjg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10101100 1100101 11101010 1001111 10111010 1010101 10101010 1110101 10101010 1010011 11011010 1110111 10101100 0110101 11101110 1000100 10100111 1111101 10100111 1110101 11100111 1100101 100101111 1011100 101011010 1110101 11101010 011010 11111000 1111101 11101000 1000111 11110010 1111111 100111110 1110111 10101010 10101001 11111110 1010011 10111110 1011101 101110010 1011101 10111010 0110111 10101111 1011100 11001011 11101001 11101011 1110101 10111010 1010101 00101010 1010100 00111010 10011111 10101000 1110101 11100111 1011101 101010011 1010101 10101010 1011101 11101010 1111111 10111010 1000101 11101010 1010101 11111010 1010111 10101000 1111111 11111110 1111101 111100110 0111000 10111010 1010101 11111110 1110111 11111100 11101001 10111111 1010111 11101110 1010101 10111010 0010101 10111010 101101 011001110 1110111 101110100 1101101 101111101 1011111 11101111 1011101 10101011 1110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 27
- Lines: 104
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, thine, thee, him
Anaphora
thine, lay
