This is an analysis of Xviii by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
I never gave a lock of hair away
To a man, Dearest, except this to thee,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXaaabcbcbc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010101 0011001001 1101110100 1110011111 11111011101 1111010111 1110011101 1111010101 1111110101 1100011101 11011101001 1101110101 1011010110 0111011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
to, it, my