This is an analysis of Lines Suggested By A Sight Of Waltham Cross by Charles Lamb.

Time-mouldering crosses, gemmed with imagery
Of costliest work and Gothic tracery,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddee
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 110010100100 01001110100 1101010111 1101010101 1101010100 0101011110 11001010101 1101010101 010010010101 1101011111 11111101010 10111111010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

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