This is an analysis of A Portrait by Alfred Austin.
When friends grown faithless, or the fickle throng,
Withdrawing from my life the love they lent,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcbcbc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010101 0100110111 1011010001 1101100101 1101000111 1111010101 1011110001 1101110101 1111010110 0111011101 1101110101 100110100101 1101010001 1001110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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