This is an analysis of Fabien Dei Franchi by Oscar Wilde.

THE silent room, the heavy creeping shade,
The dead that travel fast, the opening door,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXabcXbcX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101010101 01110101001 0101010101 0111011101 1101010001 0101010101 111000111010 1111011111 1110010101 1111010101 0011011101 11110111001 1101010001 1101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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