This is an analysis of For The Airmen by Katharine Tynan.
THOU who guidest the swallow and wren,
Keep the paths of the flying men!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bX cc dd ee ff XX gg hh dd XX bb bX ii
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Metre: 111001011 10100101 100101001 1110011100 1100111001 1010110100 11111111 110101101 111001010 011011010 10100101 110011011 11101001 1111110 0100101001 11110111 111101111 10100101011 11100111 010101101 111001110 101110101 10111111 111100011 11111101 010100101 111001010 111011110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
thou, thy
Anaphora
thou, thy
