This is an analysis of To A Proud Beauty ('A Valentine') by Adam Lindsay Gordon.
Though I have loved you well, I ween,
And you, too, fancied me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabacaca dadacbcb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 11111111 111101 11110100 010100 11011101 111101 11010101 0100101 11001101 110100 11011101 111001 11011111 010111 11110111 111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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