This is an analysis of The Sufi In The City by Sir Henry Newbolt.
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When late I watched the arrows of the sleet…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbbb X ccbc X ddcd X eedX a Xcbc
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Metre: 1 1111010001 0101000101 1101110001 1111010001 1 1001001101 1001011101 11100010111 1011010101 1 1111110111 1101000101 1101010101 1111010101 1 1101111111 0101011101 1101011101 0101010011 1 1101011001 1101111101 1101110101 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
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