This is an analysis of Perennial Calendar (Excerpt) by William Forster.
If now the sun extends his cheering beam,
And all the landscape casts a golden gleam…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddXfffggddffddaa
- Stanza lengths: 26,
- Metre: 0101010101 1101110101 1001111101 1111110111 11010101001 0101011101 1111011101 1111110001 11110100101 1101010101 1011010101 1011010101 01000101000 1101110101 1101010101 11100100101 1101010111 11011001001 110101001001 1101010101 1111010101 110010101001 11010010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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