This is an analysis of Cleanliness by Charles Lamb.
Come, my little Robert, near-
Fie! what filthy hands are here-…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccbbaaeeffggddeeaaccbbdd XXhhdd
- Stanza lengths: 32,6,
- Metre: 1110101 1110111 11101101 0110001 0010101 1010101 1110001 1110101 1010111 1110101 10100101 0111101 1110101 1010101 10111010 00101110 1010111 1011011 1111111 0011011 1011011 0011101 101101110 10111110 1010101 10100001 1010101 1010001 10001001 1010101 1001101 1110101 1010100 1010100 100101010 00101110 11101010 10101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
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Epiphora
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