This is an analysis of Sonnet Vi. To Hope by Charlotte Smith.

OH, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes.
How shall I lure thee to my haunts forlorn?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcbcbXcc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111101101 1111010101 1111010101 1111011101 10110110101 1001111101 01010011011 0101010011 1101010101 10101110101 11010101110 111100100111 1101111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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