This is an analysis of But To Be Still! Oh, But To Cease Awhile by Frances Anne Kemble.
But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile
The panting breath and hurrying steps of life,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaccXXddeeff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001110101 01011100101 0101010101 0101001101 0101010101 0101011011 1101001001 1101010100 0101011101 0101110101 1011010101 10001100101 11001010101 0011010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
the, of, but
