This is an analysis of The Fugitive by John Le Gay Brereton.

His shatter’d Empire thunders to the ground:
A myriad hearts peal laughter as it falls,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbba cddcdd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 01010010001 01001110101 1111010101 1101110101 00100100101100 10010010101 1011000101 1101011111 01010010101 0101111101 11010100101 1100111101 1111010101 0101000111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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