This is an analysis of Poor Snail, That Toilest At My Weary Feet by Charles Sangster.
Poor snail, that toilest at my weary feet,
Thou, too, must have thy burden! Life is sweet…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcddcXXeeee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111011101 1111110101 0111011101 0101010101 0001010101 0101010101 0101110001 0011001111 0101010100 1101001101 0101010011 0101011111 1111010101 111101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
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