This is an analysis of I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXcdcdX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 111110011 0010011110 1110010101 0101110111 1111000011 11010010111 0110010100 1011111111 01101110111 1101010101 01111110101 10110100111 111111111111 010101111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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