This is an analysis of Sonnet Viii by Charles Lamb.
As when a child on some long winter's night
Affrighted clinging to its Grandam's knees…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcddcececaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101111101 1001000101 0101010101 1011010101 1001110001 1011110101 0101110101 1101010101 1101011001 1101010101 0101111101 1011010111 1101011101 1111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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