This is an analysis of Wordsworth by Charles Harpur.

LOFTY and strenuous of sentiment
But narrow and partial in its scope and bent,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabXccbXaa ddeeffeeggdddd aabb ccaaccechhiihhccbbjj gghhaa kkddcceX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,14,4,20,6,8,
  • Metre: 1011000100 11011000111 1101000101 01000111101 1101011100 1101110100 01010011111 0101010101 1100010101 0001110101 1101010101 1001000101 1101010111 0101010101 11010011001 10011010101 1111110111 0101001101 1111001101 0001010101 1011110101 1101110101 1101111101 010101110111 1111110001 0101010101 0101000101 1101010101 0101010001 110101110101 1001110101 1001110101 1110010101 1111010110 110010001001 1101001101 1100010101 01111011001 1101010111 101011011001 01001000101 0101010101 1011011001 0111011101 1011110001 1101110101 1011111101 0101110111 1011010101 111101100101 1101010101 10001110001 1101011101 0101110001 1100110011 100101110011 11001100111 1001010101 1100110101 0101000111 11010011010 01010001010 1101010101 1101000100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 64

Repeated words/phrases

and, of, with

Anadiplosis

thence, seen