This is an analysis of Imagination by Gamaliel Bradford.

Imagination plays me most intolerable tricks.
To enumerate them all would be unbearably prolix.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaa bbcc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 01010111010001 001010110010010 101010101010101 111110111110011 101010101010101 101010101100001 110010101010111 101110101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

them, me, and, tricks, of

Anaphora

tricks