This is an analysis of The Poet by Amy Lowell.
What instinct forces man to journey on,
Urged by a longing blind but dominant!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010101 1101011100 1011111101 0101010001 10010100111 0100110010 0101010011 0111000101 0101110100 1101000111 1101001101 1100010100 1111010001 1100010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
