This is an analysis of Regardant by John Hay.
As I lay at your feet that afternoon,
Little we spoke, you sat and mused,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc ded efe fgf ggg ggg gaX ahaXhah
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Metre: 1111111101 10111111 10011101 1110100101 00011101101 111011101 011111111 010111111 10110111 1011100101 11011111 110011101 1111101101 101110111 01011000101 11111101011 0111101101 1110010101 010111101 1111111001 1111111101 10111111001 1111100101 110111111 1111111011 11100110101 1001001100 111110111 1110110101 0101101101 1111111101 101101101 011111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
my, your, and
Anaphora
and
