This is an analysis of To A Lady Seen From The Train by Frances Darwin Cornford.

O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ABaaabAB
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1111110101 1011111 1111011111 111110101 1010110101 11001001 1111110101 1011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8