This is an analysis of Sonnet, For My Mother’s Birthday by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.

AT thy approach, oh, sweet bewitching May!
Through ev'ry wood soft melodies resound;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX adadee
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,6,
  • Metre: 1101111001 1101110011 1101100101 1101110101 1111111101 1101011101 1111011101 1100101101 1001110101 1101110001 0101010011 00111111001 1111110101 1111100001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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