This is an analysis of Home Delights by Charles Lamb.

To operas and balls my cousins take me,
And fond of plays my new-made friend would make me.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXeffggeeffhhii
  • Stanza lengths: 22,
  • Metre: 0101111011 11011111111 0101010111 0110011101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010111 0100111101 01010101010 1101001101 0011011101 01010010101 1111111101 0101011101 1011110101 1101110101 1101011011 1001010111 0001011101 1101011111 10001010011 1111001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

my, to

Anaphora

in, the

Epiphora

me