This is an analysis of If We Had Met by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

If we had met when leaves were green,
And fate to us less hard had proved,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd caca eded
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01111101 11011111 11100110 11111111 01111111 01010111 11100011 11111011 110111001 01011101 11111101 11111111 11110101 101010101 01101111 11111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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