This is an analysis of Sonnet Lxxviii. Snowdrops by Charlotte Smith.
WAN Heralds of the sun and summer gale!
That seem just fallen from infant Zephyrs' wing;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1100011101 11110010101 1111010111 11011101001 1011010111 0101010111 1101010101 0111010101 11110101001 1111010001 1111110101 1101011101 0101111110 1101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14