This is an analysis of World Strangeness by William Watson.

Strange the world about me lies,
Never yet familiar grown-…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca dXddXcaca
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
  • Metre: 1010111 1010101 1011001 1110111 0010101 1010111 1110111 1010011 1010111 1111110 1111001 1011101 1010101 1010111 1110111 1010011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

me, i