This is an analysis of This Year I Have Seen Autumn With New Eyes by Lesbia Harford.

This year I have seen autumn with new eyes,
Glimpsed hitherto undreamt of mysteries…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbaXccXbb
  • Stanza lengths: 13,
  • Metre: 0111110011 1111100100 00110000111 1111011001 1101111101 1111110101 1001111111 11110011000 1011101101 1101011111 1111011101 1101010101 1001111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

and, or