This is an analysis of On Opening An Old School Volume Of Horace by Madison Julius Cawein.
I HAD forgot how, in my day
The Sabine fields around me lay…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbaaabCXXbbaC
- Stanza lengths: 15,
- Metre: 11011011 00110111 01011100 010011001 110010101 01010111 11000101 11010101 1101 01010100 11111100 11011001 100110101 01110111 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 15
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