This is an analysis of To Pius Ix by Frances Anne Kemble.
It may be that the stone which thou art heaving
From off thy people's neck shall fall and crush thee;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbabccdebedff
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 01010111110 01110111111 01010101111 01011101010 0111011101 1101010111 001000001101 0111010100 1111110001 0011010101 01001001111 10101010100 1001011101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
it
Epiphora
thee