This is an analysis of To by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Mine is a wayward lay;
And, if its echoing rhymes I try to string,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba XccX daXd dccd dccd deed bffb dXXd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 100101 10010011101 100101 1011111001 1111010 111110101 111100 1011101111 110101 11010011100 101100 1001111011 101101 10001010101 110011 0101000101 1101110 0101010001 010101 11111011110 111101 1101010101 111101 0101011101 111111 1001100101 110101 0100111111 111101 01000010101 111100 1100111101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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