This is an analysis of Lachesis by Victor James Daley.

OVER a slow-dying fire,
Dreaming old dreams, I am sitting;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXababa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 10011010 10111110 0111101 010110010 1100101 11001110 1111111 10001010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8