This is an analysis of The Priest's Heart by Charles Kingsley.
It was Sir John, the fair young Priest,
He strode up off the strand;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbb caXX decX dddd aXbX cfdX Xege gbaX ahfh X
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Metre: 01110111 111101 11010101101 110101 11100111 1100111 0111001011 100111 111110101 111111 11011011011 111101 1110010110 10101010 1110011110 110110 1111101011 1110101 111111111 10111110 1101001111 011101 1100101110 110011 111111111 110110 11111111011 0010101 10111111 110111 11111001001 1101110 11100111 111001 1110111001 1110111 1
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 38
Repeated words/phrases
ill, thou, she
Anaphora
she
