This is an analysis of The Wrecked Aeroplane by Leon Gellert.
Unhappy craft of Daedalus reborn,
That liest prone with white wings torn,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbba ccXddc ddXXdd eeXdde ffbggf hhaihih
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Metre: 0101010011 1110111 111101010101 11 1111110101 0101 0101111011 11011001 010101010010 101 111111010001 0101 0101010101 1010101 11010101100 0111 011111010101 1101 01101100101 01010111 0101010100110 1 011101110011 11001 10001010001 11011111 11111111010 101 1100111100101 0101 1101011111 11010111 0111110101 0101 0101011101 11 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 37
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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