This is an analysis of The Lost Path by Thomas Davis.

Sweet thoughts, bright dreams, my comfort be,
All comfort else has flown;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Ababcdcd efefghgh ibibAgag
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 11111100 110111 110011101 111101 11010101 111101 10011111 110101 11011101 110101 11010101 110101 11011111 110111 11110111 110101 110101010 011111 110101110 0100101 11111100 111101 11011001 1010111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

i, hoped

Anaphora

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