This is an analysis of Ireland by William Watson.

In the wild and lurid desert, in the thunder-travelled ways,
'Neath the night that ever hurries to the dawn that still delays,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 001110100010101 101110100011101 111010101110101 0010001010101001 101001001011001 101000101010001 1010101010100001 1110011101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

that, her, and, of

Anaphora

and