This is an analysis of A Picture by Frances Anne Kemble.

Through the half-open'd casement stream'd the light
Of the departing sun. The golden haze…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeefafaXXfafffaddgghhfgfgffgiijj
  • Stanza lengths: 39,
  • Metre: 10110100101 0001010101 0011011111 0011011101 1100101111 01010101011 1000110111 1001011000 1101110101 11010010111 0100110101 01010111001 0101110101 0101010111 1101000101 1101000101 01001100101 11010100101 1101011101 010101001001 1011010111 0011110101 1111100101 10001010101 0101110101 01001011111 10110100101 1101011111 0101110101 01010010101 1011010011 0111111101 10101100101 1001010111 1011110101 1101010101 1011010111 1001010101 0111111001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 39

Repeated words/phrases

with, and, her

Anaphora

of, with