This is an analysis of Aphrodite by Victor James Daley.
On a golden dawn in the dawn sublime
Of years ere the stars had ceased to sing,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcabddcdaedacce fabfaddb
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,
- Metre: 1010100101 001011101 100100111 10100101001 1110100100 011111001 010100101 100100111 1011100101 110110101 101101101 10100100111 1100110101 111111101 110111001 100101101 1010111111 110010101 101100101 10100110101 1110111111 111101101 110101111 110110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, you
Anaphora
and