This is an analysis of Impromptu (Iv) by Frances Anne Kemble.
Sorrow and sin, and suffering and strife,
Have been cast in the waters of my life;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccdd
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 1011110011 1010010011 1111110011 111110100 110101011001 11011000101 11100011101 011110001 1001100101 0100110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
and, still
Anaphora
and
