This is an analysis of Abbey Assaroe by William Allingham.
Gray, gray is Abbey Assaroe, by Belashanny town,
It has neither door nor window, the walls are broken down;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcX ccddaacX eeffggcX ddhhiicX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1101010110001 01101110011101 01011100101101 010111111100001 010101001100001 10010101010101 0110101010101 11001010101010 01010101010101 01010101010101 1111010010101 10010101010101 10100111010101 11010101010101 11010101010101 1111001001010 11110111010101 11110100111101 11011101110101 010101001010101 10010100110101 01000011010101 11110101010101 0110010011010 010010010100111 10110111110101 01011001111101 01101011111101 11110111010001 11010101001101 0111110110011 0101110111010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
it, he, of, and, to
Anaphora
the, it, he