This is an analysis of The Coffee Slips by Charles Lamb.

Whene'er I fragrant coffee drink,
I on the generous Frenchman think,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhffiibbjjjjiieebbffggjj
  • Stanza lengths: 38,
  • Metre: 100110101 110100101 11010101 01010001 11010011 01010101 11010101 110011001 11010101 11010001 111101011 11010101 1011101 1101101 110101010 010001010 01011101 11010111 11010111 01110101 11010111 11011111 01011101 11011101 10001111 11010101 10110101 11010111 10110101 11110101 11011101 11110101 0100101001 01011001 01000111 10110101 11000101 00101111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 38

Repeated words/phrases

he, his

Anaphora

he