This is an analysis of The Rainbow by Charles Lamb.

After the tempest in the sky
How sweet yon rainbow to the eye!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdeeaaffaaccgghhaaddhhiiffjjaaXaee
  • Stanza lengths: 40,
  • Metre: 10010001 11111001 11010111 11011101 00101010 10100010 11101010 10111111 10111010 110111110 01011101 0110100 11111101 01110101 10001111 11010011 1010010 01000100 1111111 0100100101 11100111 10111101 01010111 11010101 110010111 110111101 11001011 10111001 1010111 1011111 10101010 00101010 010111011 1011101 11001011001 110010111 10011110 100111001 011101001 10010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

it, which, every, and

Anaphora

and, every