This is an analysis of Consolation by Edward William Thomson.
A TENDER miracle so blends
The separate life which is our fate…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba b cdcd efef
- Stanza lengths: 3,1,4,4,
- Metre: 01010011 010111011 01011001 01000100 01110011 11011101 11011101 01010101 11011111 11100011 11010101 11010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
we
Anaphora
we
