This is an analysis of On Lamb’s Specimens Of Dramatic Poets: Sonnets by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
I.
IF ALL the flowers of all the fields on earth…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbcXbddeded X fXeffeefagdagd
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,
- Metre: 1 01010010111 1101010011 0100110001 0101010111 11100110101 1111101111 1111011100 01001110101 1111001001001 11010101011 1101010101 1111010111 1101010111 11011001101 1 11001110111 11011101010 11010101101 1101010100 11010101111 1101011101 01010000101 111101001001 11110101001 1101001010110 1101011111 1011110101 11110101110 11001000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 31
Anaphora
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