This is an analysis of To Miss Mitford: Authoress Of by Charles Kingsley.

The single eye, the daughter of the light;
Well pleased to recognise in lowliest shade…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbaccddcd X
  • Stanza lengths: 14,1,
  • Metre: 0101010001 1101000101 1100010111 1101010101 0101110110 0101110101 1111000111 1101011101 11010001001 0111011111 1111010101 1011111101 0101011101 0101010111 1001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

of, and

Anaphora

by