This is an analysis of At Last by Paul Hamilton Hayne.

In youth, when blood was warm and fancy high,
I mocked at death. How many a quaint conceit…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacbbcdeaedc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0111111101 11111100101 110101111 1001111101 1101110100 1110011101 1101010101 1101110100 1101010111 1011011101 01110011101 1101110101 1011010111 11011010100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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