This is an analysis of Sea-Lavender by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

Lavender, sea lavender!
Pale sweet flower how full of her!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AabbcXdXeeffggcceeaah hiiaAfXddgXaajXccjjaakkllggaAbb
  • Stanza lengths: 21,31,
  • Metre: 1001100 11101100 10010111 1011100 11100101 100101000 1011101 1011100 00101001 1011101 1110111 0010001 1001011 1010101 1001101 1010011 1000101 1011101 10111110 11111110 1110111 1010111 10010111 0110100 1011100 1001100 0011101 1011100 1011100 1110111 1010101 1110100 10001010 11101110 101111110 111001100 1010101 1011101 11101110 10111010 11101010 00111010 1111111 1110101 11111110 00101110 1111101 1110101 1011100 1001100 1111101 1111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 52

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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