This is an analysis of On A Birthday by John Millington Synge.

Friend of Ronsard, Nashe, and Beaumont,
Lark of Ulster, Meath, and Thomond,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 10101110 10101110 10101010 00101000 1010111 11001101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6

Repeated words/phrases

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