This is an analysis of Love's Dawn by John Hay.
In wandering through waste places of the world,
I met my love and knew not she was mine.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaXXaaXbccbcc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 01001110001 1111111111 1101110101 111101011010 01110101100 0101011111 100110101 10011111100 0111111101 1001011100 1101010101 10111110111 111111101 11010000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
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