This is an analysis of Translation From Victor Hugo by Frances Anne Kemble.

Thou art like the bird that alights and sings
Though the frail spray bends—for he knows he has wings.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa
  • Stanza lengths: 2,
  • Metre: 1110111011 10111111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 2