This is an analysis of Sonnet Lxi by Charlotte Smith.

Supposed to have been written in America.
ILL-omen'd bird! whose cries portentous float…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X ababcdcdaXaXdd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,
  • Metre: 010101000100 11001110101 10101000101 11010011101 1101010101 10001010001 0110010001 1011010001 1101000101 10111110101 11010101001 10110010101 1101010111 11010100101 100110010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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