This is an analysis of Villanelle For An Anniversary by Seamus Heaney.
A spirit moved. John Harvard walked the yard,
The atom lay unsplit, the west unwon,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AXX abA abX abA abX abaX
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,4,
- Metre: 0101110101 0101100110 01110101100 0111110101 01010101010 0101110101 01010101011 11011001100 01110101100 1100010101 1010101010 0101110101 1101110001 11110101110 01110101100 0101111101 1101101010 0101110101 01110101100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 19
Anaphora
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