This is an analysis of A Prayer by Lord Alfred Douglas.

Often the western wind has sung to me,
There have been voices in the streams and meres,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaB abXB cbcB XbaB
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1001011101 11010001110 11001111101 1111110111 0111011111 10111011111 11110111011 1111110111 1101010111 10010011011 1101110101 1111110111 1011011000 110110011 1101111101 1111110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and, me

Anaphora

and