This is an analysis of The Wandering Bard by Thomas Moore.

What life like that of the bard can be --
The wandering bard, who roams as free…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccccaa ddcceeddccaa bbXbffbbeegg
  • Stanza lengths: 12,12,12,
  • Metre: 111100110 010011111 1010111011 11110101 0111001111 0111101 01011111 11011111 01011111 01111101 11110101 00100111 111101101 01010101 11100111 11001111 11111111 0010111 11111111 110010101 101010101 11010101 11010101 111101 1100110011 111110101 010110010 11010111 010111111 1101101 110111111 110011111 1101011110 111101010 001110111 10110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

that, he