This is an analysis of To Ellen Terry by Alfred Austin.
Nay, bring forth none but daughters: daughters young,
The doubles of yourself; with face as fair,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbacdcddc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110101 0100100111 1011011101 111101001 10110010011 0101010110 1111011101 11110100011 11010010001 01010111101 10001011101 1101000111 10101010101 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
as, your, thus, be
Epiphora
life