This is an analysis of Nathalocus by James Clerk Maxwell.
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Bleak was the pathway and barren the mountain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a babaccca X dedefffe X gfgfffff X chchfffh a chcheXXh a XibXggXi X fjfjfffj X fefeaaaX X khkhXllX l dldlfffl a aeaebbXe
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Metre: 1 11011110010 101001101001 11011110010 101111001101 110011010010 110010110110 111010010110 111001101101 1 10011110110 101011011001 1110101010010 01110001001 100010110010 110110011010 010010100010 01001001001 1 11011010010 10000111011001 110010111110 111101001001 1111001011010 010110010110 111010010010 101010001001 1 11010010010 01001001111 010010010010 11001001001 11011010010 11011010010 11010010010 11001001001 1 100011010110 1011010001 11011111110 110011011001 11010010010 1111100111110 1011111111110 101010001001 1 10101111111100 1001101011 101010010010 111110100010 101001011010010 111010010010 1101111100100 101001101101 1 10010010110 1101011001 10011010110 10010001001 110010110110 10110011110 1001001110 1001001001 1 011010010010 1001000111 10010111010 1001111101 110010111111 11110010111 110100010011 11111010110 1 110010011011 01101001111 1010001010111 11011101001 1011011011010 11101100010 110011011010 100110101101100 1 101110110010 1101011011 11110110010 11011111001 11010010010 11010010110 10111110010 1101001101 1 101010111011 1111001011 1011110111111 10111101101 10111110010 111011010110 1000101010100 11001011001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 22
- Lines: 109
Repeated words/phrases
and, in, of, it, he, have, i
Anaphora
the, have
Epiphora
it, me