This is an analysis of A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
What was he doing, the great god Pan,
Down in the reeds by the river?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaccb abaddb abaeeb abaffb abaXeb abaddbXabaaab
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 111100111 10011010 101011001 10110001001 1100101001 001011010 111010111 001110010 010101001 1010100101 101011101 111010010 110110111 11001010 1111010111 0011110101 11110100101 01010010 110100111 11010010 1101101001 10000111 11011101 011111010 100110111 11111010 11011101 011101110 11001001001 110101010 11111 1011010 1011111 011010101 10100110101 11011010 110100111 011111010 100101001 011110111 1011110101 1010010010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
it, sweet
Anaphora
and
