This is an analysis of Absence by Matthew Arnold.
IN THIS fair stranger’s eyes of grey
Thine eyes, my love, I see.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc bdbd aeae fdfd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 00110101 111111 11010101 111101 00010111 010101 01011101 110011 11110101 111101 11010111 110110 110010111 111101 00011100 111101 110010111 110101 01110101 1011011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
we, ye
Anaphora
and, i
