This is an analysis of Accidents by John Hay.

A vision seen by Plato the divine:
Two shuddering souls come forward, waiting doom…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcccddc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101110001 11001110101 0100000101 1001101111 1001011101 1011000101 10001011010101 010101011100 0111011101 1011101101 01010100011 1111011111 0111010101 0101100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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