This is an analysis of This Enlightened Age by Ada Cambridge.
I Say it to myself—in meekest awe
Of Progress, electricity and steam,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbcb defegefe hifX aXff ffif gjgj hkfk lkck Xaga lmdm ffgf ggbg Xhbkb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 1100110101 0110110011 00010101001 1111011111 1100110101 1001010101 1100111101 0101010101 11111010101 1111110100 11110010011 1101110101 1111001101 1011110101 11110011001 1101111101 1111011101 10101110111 0111000101 0101011100 1101110111 11010101100 0100110001 1101111101 1101000101 11110111001 110010101 1011111101 1011010011 110010000101 1101000101 10110010011 1111110001 1101111101 01010000101 01001000101 1111010101 1101010111 1101010101 1111010101 1011110100 1101110101 0101001111 01010010011 1101011101 1111010101 1111011111 1101110101 1111011011 1101011001 1101110101 11011100101 0111011111 1111010011 1100111101 01110010101 111100111011 0101010101 11001110101 1101011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 61
Repeated words/phrases
not, and, their, this, when, more
Anaphora
of, and, their, what, this, when, who