This is an analysis of On Seeing Mrs. Kean As Constance In King John by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta.

'Twas no illusion; from the Past the veil was rent away;
The tide that never changes ebbed, and bore me to that day,…

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  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

in, that, and, thou, thy

Anaphora

when, there, thou