This is an analysis of Now All The Lovely Days Are Past by Lesbia Harford.

Now all the lovely days are past,
The hours of sun and leagues of sea,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXdcdXbab
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11010111 010011101 11011101 1011 11110101 11010101 11010011 11011101 110001101 01111111 11111111 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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