This is an analysis of Sonnet To Lake Leman by George Gordon Byron.

Rousseau -- Voltaire -- our Gibbon -- De Staël --
Leman! these names are worthy of thy shore,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaabbaabcbcbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 010111001 1011110011 1101111111 11001010101 0011010101 11110100101 0101110001 0101010001 1101110111 1111010111 01010101101 011011101 1001010100 0111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

thy, of

Anaphora

of