This is an analysis of Cul-De Sac by Edward William Thomson.
“DEAR Dove, both Love and Life command we wed,”
Spoke I. She smiled and shook her sage young head,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbc caabbXaa
- Stanza lengths: 5,8,
- Metre: 1111110111 1111110111 1111010111 1111111101 1101011101 11110100101 1111100101 1101010101 0101011111 11001010001 1101101111 1111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
and, be, our
Anaphora
our
