This is an analysis of Christopher Marlowe by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Crowned, girdled, garbed and shod with light and fire,
Son first-born of the morning, sovereign star!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbbbbbacXXcdd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11011101110 1110010101 1101011111 11100100111 11001011001 1111010111 1101010111 11011101110 10101110101 11010011010 1101010100 0101110001 01111110111 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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