This is an analysis of The Land Of Illusion by Madison Julius Cawein.

So we had come at last, my soul and I,
Into that land of shadowy plain and peak,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba X cddc X eeee X XffX a ghhg a icci X XXea X diid X gccg j Xggc a XaaX X eeXe X caac X Xffh X gjjg X ikki X chhc X cXec X liil X eiie X adXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Metre: 1111111111 00110100111 11011100101 11011100101 1 1111010011 0101010111 1111011101 1101010101 1 1101110101 0101010101 0101101001 1101010101 1 1111000101 1111010101 1111010111 0111110100 1 1111010111 1111011101 1101010101 110110111001 1 1101111101 1111010101 0101110101 0101010001 1 1111110100 11011001100 0101110101 1101110101 1 11001110111 1101010001 1101110101 10111110101 1 1111011001 110101110010 11010100010 1101110111 1 0101101100 01111101001 0101010101 1101001100 1 1011111101 1111110001 1101011101 1111111111 1 1011011111 1101111101 00111101110 1111110001 1 1111010001 1111010101 1101011111 1101111101 1 01110111110 0111010111 1101010111 01010010111 1 1101011100 1101011101 10101101101 0101010001 1 1111010101 1101110001 1111000101 01010010001 1 11001110111 01111100101 10010011001 1101110101 1 1111010111 0101011110 0111110101 0101011101 1 1011000111 1111011101 1010110101 0101111001 1 0111110011 1111010101 11010100101 1101010101 1 1101010101 0111010101 0101111100 0101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 41
  • Lines: 144

Repeated words/phrases

and, of, to

Anaphora

on, the, that