This is an analysis of Consolation by Charles Harpur.
MINE heart is heavy with an ancient sorrow,
My brain is aching with a clinging grief,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbXabcdcddc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11010011010 1101000101 10110101010 0100110001 1100010101 11010101011 01010111010 1111000101 1101111101 0001000101 110101001101 1101110001 1111010111 11001000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14