This is an analysis of Not Love by Augusta Davies Webster.
I HAVE not yet I could have loved thee, sweet;
Nor know I wherefore, thou being all thou art,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa aba bcb cac ada ded efe fgf Xfg
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 1111111111 111100110111 01001011001 11010101001 01111111010 1101010011 11110101010 0111111111 11011100110 11110011101 0101110001 010100100011 1111010111 1011001111 010010101101 1111011101 1101011101 1111010101 1111110111 0101111101 1101010101 1110111111 1101010101 01110010111 0111111110 0111010111 1101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
i, and
Anaphora
and, with
