This is an analysis of Love's Trinity by Alfred Austin.

SOUL, heart, and body, we thus singly name,
Are not in love divisible and distinct, But each with each inseparably link'd. One is not honour, and the other shame,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,
  • Metre: 1111011101 1101010010111010100011011010101 111101110111 11111101011 011001111011101011101011011101101 110101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 6

Repeated words/phrases

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