This is an analysis of Time Spent In Dress by Charles Lamb.
In many a lecture, many a book,
You all have heard, you all have read,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb XdeX XfXf cbXb XcXc abcb cgXg Xedcd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 0100101001 11111111 11010001 11010101 001001101 11010101 10011101 11110110 110100110 110111010 11010110 011001010 11010101 01010011 111001110 11000101 01110101 11011101 11110101 11011101 10110101 01111101 110010111 10010011 11011101 11001001 11110111 11111101 01001101 01111001 110110101 11011011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
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