This is an analysis of Condolatory Address To Sarah, Countess Of Jersey, On The Prince Regent's Returning Her Picture To Mrs. Mee by George Gordon Byron.

When the vain triumph of the imperial lord,
Whom servile Rome obey'd, and yet abhorr'd,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddbbddeeXfffbbggffeehhcceeiiiiddeejjbbiiccii X
  • Stanza lengths: 50,1,
  • Metre: 101100001001 1101011101 10010111001 1101000111 11010110001 0111110100 11010111001 0101010111 1101011101 01001010101 1101010001 1101010101 01110101001 1111011101 01110111000 1110111101 0111111101 1001011001 0001011101 1011010101 1101001101 0111010101 1101110101 1101010111 11010100101 01001100101 0111010101 0101001111 1011001110 1101000101 1111010101 1111111101 11110100101 0111010101 0100010101 0111010101 01010011001 1111110111 1111110111 0110111101 1101011101 1111010101 1111011111 010110010101 1111110101 0101011101 1111001101 01001011101 1101010010 01010100011 101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 51

Repeated words/phrases

that, his, of

Anaphora

a, the