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?…

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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