This is an analysis of To Cowper by Anne Brontë.

Sweet are thy strains, celestial Bard;
And oft, in childhood's years,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdcbc Xded Xfgh Xdad Xghg afeh aici Xfbf ddad egdgXc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
  • Metre: 11110101 110100 1101011001 010101 01001101 1101001 11110111 011101 11110111 010101 11011101 110101 10110101 010100 01100101 111101 11110111 110101 10010001 110111 01010101 110101 11011111 111111 010101000 0010100 101100101 111101 111100111 111101 01011101 111101 01110111 111100 11001101 110100 11010001 0100101 11010001 010101 11110101 0100101 11011101 111101 10
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 11
  • Lines: 45

Repeated words/phrases

my, of, that

Anaphora

the, that