This is an analysis of Places And Men by William Allingham.

In Sussex here, by shingle and by sand,
Flat fields and farmsteads in their wind-blown trees,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXba bcddbc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0101110111 1111001111 0101110001 1101010111 01011101010 01001101010 1011110111 11011101111 1011000111 01000101111 1111111011 0101110111 0101011101 01001111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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