This is an analysis of Postum by John Hay.
Two thousand years these temples have been old.
Yet were they not more lovely the first day,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1100110101 1011110011 11011011111 010100101101 1001010101 11001110101 1111110101 1101111101 1011111101 1101000100 1101110011 0101010111 1111011111 110101001000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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