This is an analysis of A Ballad Of The Heather by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
We spent a day together,
One day of all our lives,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXab cdcdcd efXfef ghghgh acacac XcXcXc gigigi egegeg Xfgfgf dfdfdfXababab
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 1101010 110111 0101010 1101100 1100110 010111 0111011 011111 0100111 110101 1101111 010111 0100010 111101 0101010 010001 0101010 011111 1101110 011101 1101010 111111 0101110 111110 1111010 011101 1111110 111101 11101010 1101101 1111110 110111 1101110 110011 1101100 011101 1110110 010011 0100110 111101 0110010 011011 0101010 110001 1101010 010101 1111110 111101 1100010 011101 1111010 111001 1111010 111011 1101010 110101 1101110 010101 11001110 110001 0111010 110111 1101010 110111 1100110 111111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 66
Repeated words/phrases
what
Anaphora
the, we, what, they

