This is an analysis of On A Portrait by Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
Blest art! What magic powers with thine may vie,
That brings (too seldom seen) a Brother nigh?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddffaabbdd
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 11110100111 1111010101 1111000101 0101001101 0101100111 10110001001 1101111111 110100101001 01110100101 1111011101 11010100101 01001010101 1101110101 10101000101 1111010101 01010010101 11110010101 1101001101 0110111111 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
that, the, i