This is an analysis of What Do The Futures Speak Of? by Anna Laetitia Barbauld.

IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION IN THE GREEK GRAMMAR
They speak of never-withering shades,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abXXaaaa bacadbebXbcbaede
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,16,
  • Metre: 010001000110 110101001 11001001 11010101 110111 11010101 011101 11010101 010001 11010001 110001 11010101 011101 01010001 110011 11010111 110101 0100101001 011111 01010111 010111 10010101 111111 1100101001 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

and, in