This is an analysis of Impromptu by Alfred Austin.
Tell me your race, your name,
O Lady limned as dead, yet as when living fair!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababaXXXXX bXbcbbbddd bcbXbaacXeeff
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,13,
- Metre: 111111 1101011111101 1010101 1100101 0110101 1110100 1010100 1110111 1010101 111111111000 110101 1101011100001 1010111 1111111 11010101 1111101 1111101 0011101 1110101 110101010011 101111 110110010101 1111111 10011000 1111101 1011101 110101110101 1110101 101100 1111101 1010101 1010101 110101100101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
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