This is an analysis of Lines Written At Night by Frances Anne Kemble.

Oh, thou surpassing beauty! that dost live
Shrined in yon silent stream of glorious light!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbccdefXbfageXdXXbgXX
  • Stanza lengths: 22,
  • Metre: 1101010111 100110101001 1001001101 11010100110 111111001110 1011010101 1011011001 10100111010 11010100101 11001101101 11011011010 11001100101 1101110101 1111011101 1101011111 100010010001 110010101010 11100011101 0100010101 1101011101 1101010101 10111001001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

no, all

Anaphora

no, that

Anadiplosis

hail