This is an analysis of Lost by Alfred Austin.
Sweet lark! that, bedded in the tangled grass,
Protractest dewy slumbers, wake, arise!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eeeefdfd gfgXdddd fgfghdhdXffffdbdb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 1111000101 1001010101 0101000101 11011100001 1111110001 10101110101 1111010111 110101 1101000101 1111101111 1101111111 1011100101 11111100111 11111010111 1111110111 110101 1111000101 0101010111 1011111011 1101101101 1001110101 1011111111 1111010011 100101 11001011101 11111011101 1101011111 1111101101 1111010101 1011010101 1011011101 111101 1111100111 1101110101 11111100101 0111111110 1111111111 1111111101 1101001111 100011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, she
