This is an analysis of To A Cathedral Tower: On The Evening Of The Thirty-Fifth Anniversay Of Waterloo by Sydney Thompson Dobell.
And since thou art no older, 'tis to-day!
And I, entranced,-with the wide sense of gods…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXcdefgedhiijbdgbdfdhiagXbcckfligcXcdbbbXbclldeiedcifbfebXhidggmlXbaeegmgbfdmab iXhdkjebcg
- Stanza lengths: 80,10,
- Metre: 1111110101 1101001101 0101010101 0110111111 0101011101 0001010001 0100010101 1001001101 0011100101 1111010101 10011010101 1001011101 1101110111 1001101111 0101100111 10110001001 11011101010 1101010101 1001110101 1011011101 0101010101 1101110111 0111011111 0111011101 1101110101 0111010111 0101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1101011101 1001111001 0100010001 1101110001 1101010110 0101010101 00110100110 1111011101 10001010001 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 011001110101 01011100110 1100110001 1010110111 1011000101 0101011101 1001011101 1001110101 1101011011 0101111011 1101011101 0101011101 1101011111 1001111101 110100100111 0101110101 1101010111 1101000101 1101110101 1001110001 0111010111 0101010101 11110111111 1011110011 1101010001 10010010110 0101010101 1111011011 1011110111 11 1100110101 0101011111 1101011111 1001000101 1111110101 1111111101 1111111011 11010100111 1111111101 0101010001 0111111101 0101110111 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0100110101 1101111011 0111110101 010010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 91
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, her, how, o
Anaphora
and, ah
Epiphora
night
