This is an analysis of Sorrow’s Importunity by Alfred Austin.
When Sorrow first came wailing to my door,
April rehearsed the madrigal of May;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb cbcb XbXb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1101110011 1001010001 1111110101 1111011101 1111011101 010010111001 1111011111 1001011101 1101110111 0011001101 11011110111 1101010001 1111001111 1101011101 11111111010 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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