This is an analysis of I Count The Days Until I See You by Lesbia Harford.

I count the days until I see you, dear,
But the days only.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXbXcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 1101011111 10110 11110101110 11010 1111111101 11011 010110011001 11111 1111010110 11011 1011001111 11111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

i, me, you

Anaphora

i