This is an analysis of On And On by Mathilde Blind.

By long leagues of wood and meadow
On and on we drive apace;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede fdfd gXgX dhdh icic
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11101111 1111101 00101111 1010101 101110101 11100011 10111011 1000100 11111010 1010101 10101010 1010111 11111110 00101010 11001010 101010010 111110010 10001010 10101010 1010111 11101110 1110101 11101110 1011101 111111101 1011101 11101011 1011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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