This is an analysis of The Wayfarer by Patrick Henry Pearse.
The beauty of the world hath made me sad,
This beauty that will pass;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabbXXcbccXaXdbaXdbX
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 0100011111 010101 0111110011 0101010001 1011010101 11010001110 110101 1111111101 11011100111 11111001010 1100110101 01101110101 0101010 11110 1111111 101 0111011011 111111110 11110111 100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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