This is an analysis of Absence by Thomas William Heney.

Ah, happy air that, rough or soft,
   May kiss that face and stay;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXb bcdcbcXbadaca
  • Stanza lengths: 6,13,
  • Metre: 11011111 111111 11011001 110011 110101111 111111 10011100 111111 11010111 111001 11111111 111011 10111110 100111 10111111 110101 10011101 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

that, or, and, i

Anaphora

and