This is an analysis of To One Absent by John Hay.
Only a week ago, heaven bent so near
It bartered greetings with the jocund earth,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXXcddc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10010110111 0101000101 0111110111 0101010101 1111011101 10110011111 1100110111 01110011101 1111010101 0111001101 1011000101 10110111001 0111001101 1011011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
