This is an analysis of An Occasional Prologue, Delivered Previous To The Performance Of 'The Wheel Of Fortune' At A Private Theatre by George Gordon Byron.
Since the refinement of this polish'd age
Has swept irnmortal raillery from the stage;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeeffXXggffhhbbeehheeeeiijj
- Stanza lengths: 36,
- Metre: 1001000101 11100100001 1111010101 1101111101 1101010111 1101010101 1101011101 1101011111 1110011101 1001110001 01110010101 0101010101 1111010111 1101010101 011101001 01011000101 11111100111 1111010111 1000110101 1001110111 1111010101 1111110111 111100101 0101010011 1101110101 11001011101 11110101001 11010010111 1001010101 1001011101 1111010111 0101000111 1111010101 1101111001 1111001101 1011011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
no, to, our
Anaphora
no
