Scansion
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Iambic tetrameter
Poet of Nature thou hast wept to know
1st foot: trochee
"We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers."
Parallelism
If you had known the virtue of the ring,
Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,
If you did know for whom I gave the ring
And would conceive for what I gave the ring
And how unwillingly I left the ring
When nought would be accepted but the ring
You would abate the strength of your displeasure.
epistrophe
In every cry of every Man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
Anaphora
Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace,
Seeing the game from him escapt away
iambic pentameter
I met a traveller from an antique land
3rd foot: Anapest
Antithesis
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
symploce
The Greeks are strong and skillful to their strength,
Fierce to their skill and to their fierceness valiant
Polyptoton
With this he vanished out of sight and swiftly shrunk away, / And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas day.
Iambic heptameter
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought
One heart's too small / For hunger, cold, love, everything.
asyndeton
"Who from eternity doth teach / Himself in all, and all things in himself."
Antimetabole
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course / With rocks and stones and trees.
Polysyndeton
Tyger tyger burning bright /
In the forest of the night
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Truncated trochaic tetrameter
O for a draught of vintage!
1st: Dactyl
Music I heard with you was more than music.
epanalepsis
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon
epizeuxis
Love without end, and without measure Grace
Chiasmus
In secret we met--
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
Anapestic dimeter
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall /
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime
2nd line, 4th foot: spondee
Her book was thrilling, compelling, terrifying, overwhelming at times, and so very surprising.
Congeries
The years to come seemed waste of breath, / A waste of breath the years behind.
anadiplosis
Full many a gem of purest ray serene