This is an analysis of To June by George MacDonald.

Ah, truant, thou art here again, I see!
For in a season of such wretched weather…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcdXcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101110111 10010011010 11111111010 1111111101 1001011101 01110111110 11010011010 1101010100 01010110001 0101010001 0111000101 1111111011 10010000101 1111011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

i, of

Anaphora

of