This is an analysis of The Crown Of Thorns by Ada Cambridge.
“And unto Adam He said . . . . cursed is the ground for thy sake. Thorns . .
. . shall it bring forth.”…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abc bbbb deed cccc fccf ghhg diid jkkj cffc gllg dffd alll kffkXfggf
- Stanza lengths: 3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110101110011111 1011 1010100101110101 01001000111 0101111001 100010101 10111010111 11001111101 01010001110 110011101010 11110100001 1111001101 1101010101 0101000101 011111111 111101010001 10110101001 1111110111 1111011101 1111111101 1111111101 111101101 1011011001 1101111101 1101000101 1101010101 1111111101 1111111001 1101111101 1111010101 1101111101 11110100101 1011111101 1111110001 1101110001 1101110111 1111000101 1111111101 1111010111 1111110101 1101011101 0111001101 1101010101 1111000101 0111011101 1101011101 1111110101 1101111101 0111010101 1111000101 1101110101 1101110001 1110110111 1001010101 11011100001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 55
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, we, would
Anaphora
thou, and, still, we
