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,…
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