This is an analysis of To A Young Lady, On Being Too Fond Of Music by Charles Lamb.
Why is your mind thus all day long
Upon your music set;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd bebX fgfg hchc bibi beXe bgbg ebeb djdj
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10111111 011101 11010001 110100 11110001 110011 11110111 010101 01000101 1100111 11010101 111100 11111101 1001111 10110111 101111 10110101 1111010 01011111 01001010 11001101 010100 111011001 111101 100010001 010111 11010110 110101 11011101 011101 01110101 1100101 01111101 011101 11010101 110101 01000111 101101 01110101 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 49
Anaphora
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