This is an analysis of Xv by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcXcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111011111 1111010101 1111111101 0011111111 1111001101 1101100101 11011110101 10111100101 01010010011 0111111111 0100110101 10010001100 1111110001 1001000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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