This is an analysis of The Charity Ball by George Gordon Byron.
What matter the pangs of a husband and father,
If his sorrows in exile be great or be small,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 110010010110 001001101101 1010010010110 101101001001 110011110110 010011011110 1010110010110 101101001111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
