This is an analysis of Commemoration by Sir Henry Newbolt.
I sat by the granite pillar, and sunlight fell
Where the sunlight fell of old,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXb bbbbXb cacada efefXf fgfgXXXbfbfdf
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 111010101111 1011101 10101010110101 1010111 1010110111100 101010011101 1111010100101 111101 01110010101 110111 11010011010 11110111011 11001001001001 11001011 1100100101111 11000101 1010111111110 10110011111 11010110111 110101 110000010101 111111 101110111100 1111110101 100011101111 010101 1101111111 111111 11101011111110 1011011101 101111101011 101101 1110101001111 11111101 111111101001010 10110111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, or, i
Anaphora
and
