This is an analysis of Desire by Ada Cambridge.

Bright eyes, sweet lips, with many fevers fill
The young blood, running wildly, as it must;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cadcad
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111010101 0111010101 1111010101 0101010101 1101000000 0111110101 1001010111 1111111101 1101010011 1011110001 1001110101 1111010001 0111111011 1001110011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

i, to

Anaphora

true