This is an analysis of Oh, That I Were The Spirit Of These Wilds! by Charles Sangster.

Oh, that I were the spirit of these wilds!
I'd make the zephyrs dance for my delight,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbXXbXabcc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1110010011 1101011101 1101110101 10110010010 1101110111 1001110101 1001011101 1001000101 110110001 0101010111 0100010111 0101000011 0111111101 111110111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and, of

Anaphora

the