This is an analysis of A Rejected Lover To His Mistress (I) by Frances Anne Kemble.

Knowest thou not that of all human gifts
God chooses love?—alone, that may be laid…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccbbbbXddb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011101101 1101011101 0101011111 1101000111 11010101011 1111100101 1111001101 0101011101 1111111011 1101010101 01100001100 1111011111 1111010101 01001011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

that, thee