This is an analysis of To England by Alfred Austin.
Men deemed thee fallen, did they? fallen like Rome,
Coiled into self to foil a Vandal throng:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11110011011 1001010101 1101011101 1011101101 1001001101 1011101101 1001100111 010010010001 0111110111 0101011101 0101110011 1111010101 10001100101 1001011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
thy
Anaphora
the