This is an analysis of To A Picture by Frances Anne Kemble.

Oh, serious eyes! how is it that the light,
The burning rays, that mine pour into ye,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdbefefbd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11001100101 0101111001 1111111111 1101111101 1110111101 1111010111 0101011100 1101111101 1101000111 1101010101 1110111111 1111111101 1111011101 0111110100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

ye, oh

Anaphora

oh