This is an analysis of I Would To Heaven That I Were So Much Clay by George Gordon Byron.

I would to heaven that I were so much clay,
As I am blood, bone, marrow, passion, feeling -…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abababcc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11010110111 11111101010 0111010101 11010111010 1011010001 11110101010 110100010010 11111111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: ottava rima
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

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