This is an analysis of Love’s Unity by Alfred Austin.
How can I tell thee when I love thee best?
In rapture or repose? how shall I say?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacaacac
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111111111 0101011111 11011111001 10111110011 11011110001 11010101011 1111001101 0111110111 11001110111 1001110001 0101010101 1111010110 1101010111 110010011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, thee
Anaphora
and
