This is an analysis of To The Setting Sun by Sir Lewis Morris.

STAY, O sweet day, nor fleet so fast away
For now it is that life revives again,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcbc Adedede Afgfgfg ahehehe AijXjij
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,7,
  • Metre: 1111111101 1100110101 1011010101 1111010101 1101110101 0101010101 1101111011 1111111101 11011111011 1111000011 1011010111 1011010111 1111111111 1101011111 1111111101 1011110101 1011110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1011110101 1111111101 11011001010 1101111101 11011111110 1111011101 01011101110 1101101001 1111111101 1111100111 0101010111 1101011100 0101111101 1111011101 1011101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 35

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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