This is an analysis of On A Change Of Masters At A Great Public School by George Gordon Byron.

WHERE are those honours, Ida! once yow own,
When Probus fill'd your magisterial throne?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffgggg X
  • Stanza lengths: 18,1,
  • Metre: 1111010111 11011101001 1101110001 1001000011 11010011101 1110011101 01011001001 1001100101 1001110101 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 0101001101 1101011101 01011010101 1101011111 10100110101 1101011101 011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

with

Anaphora

pomposus, with