This is an analysis of The Tyrant by Lesbia Harford.

When I was a child,
I felt the fairies' power.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXbcXcX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11101 1101010 0010111 110010 01011 011111 1011011 11011 11101 11011 1011101 11101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

my

Anaphora

the