This is an analysis of If This Be All by Anne Brontë.
O God! if this indeed be all
That Life can show to me;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd bebe eaea eaea fgfg fefe gbgXXe
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Metre: 11000101 111101 01110111 1100101 00110110 010111 11110101 110101 01010101 110111 11111101 1111001 100110011 010100 01011101 010101 10011111 110001 01010001 010101 11001101 010111 11010011 110111 01110101 010001 11110101 110010 01101101 111101 11110101 110100 10
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 33
Anaphora
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