This is an analysis of Written After Leaving West Point by Frances Anne Kemble.
The hours are past, love,
Oh, fled they not too fast, love!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AAbbccAAddeeAAccXcAAdfdf
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 010111 1111111 11010110101 1101010101 1101110111 1011110101 010111 1111111 11010100111 11010101001 11001110101 11100011111 010111 1111111 110101101001 0101010101 0111011100 11001011111 010111 1111111 1110101111 1001110101 1101110011 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and
Epiphora
love
