This is an analysis of Sonnet On An Edelweiss by Frances Anne Kemble.

Where huge rock buttresses bear up the clouds,
With all their floating reservoirs of rain;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabbccXbddee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111001101 0111010101 1011010110 010100111001 0101011101 0101011101 1101010100 0101110100 11011001010 1111010101 10001011111 1001110001 0111010101 1101100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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