This is an analysis of A Song by Victor Marie Hugo.

Sitting at His table one day,
God and the devil a game did play;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb cccccc ddXeeX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 10101011 110100101 100100111 1011101 01011101 1101101 010101101 10111101 100101 110101 11110101 101010111 10101101 1011101 01010111 11110101 10010111 100101100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Anaphora

and

Anadiplosis

you