This is an analysis of The Missionary - Canto Fifth by William Lisle Bowles.

'Tis dawn:--the distant Andes' rocky spires,
One after one, have caught the orient fires.…

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Structure

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  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 161

Repeated words/phrases

and, i, be

Anaphora

the, for, her, each, and, o'er