This is an analysis of The Departing Of Gluskâp by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.
It is so long ago; and men well-nigh
Forget what gladness was, and how the earth…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXabXcdeaefdgabfbhfcih heXihcehXghigbgfXXea
- Stanza lengths: 23,20,
- Metre: 0011011111 0111011101 1101010101 1011011101 0101101 101 1111011101 10111101000 0101011101 0101100101 1101011100 11011001001 11110010100 1101010111 0111000101 0101010101 1011011101 01001100101 1101111101 1101110101 1111110100 1111010111 1101010100 0111110111 1101010111 101110101 1101011101 1111010001 11000110101 1101110111 1001010111 100111111 1001110101 1111000101 1101110111 1111110111 1111010111 0111011111 1101010111 1101110011 11010100101 1111111101 1101010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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