This is an analysis of Milton by Robert Fuller Murray.

with apologies to Lord Tennyson
O swallow-tailed purveyor of college sprees,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aXbabacdXXceXdeX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,16,
  • Metre: 0010001100 11010100101 11010100100 1100100010 1001001011 1101010101 1101110110 110111010 1001001010 11011100100 01010100100 111111010 1101001011 110101011000 11011110110 110101010 1001001011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 17

Anaphora

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