This is an analysis of Futility by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
To gild refined gold, or to paint the lily,
Or seek by other means to overstress,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc XdXd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 01011101010 1111010100 11110011010 11001010010 11110111010 1111011100 1100011010 0110011011 10110101010 0101110101 01001100110 0111110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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