This is an analysis of Sonnet Lxxix. To The Goddess Of Botany by Charlotte Smith.

OF Folly weary, shrinking from the view
Of Violence and Fraud, allow'd to take…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacaXcacdcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101010001 0100110101 1101011101 1111011101 110111011101 0111010101 11110010001 1111010100 1011011101 110010111001 0111110101 1101000101 1001110101 110101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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Anaphora

of