This is an analysis of The Sweet O' The Year by George Meredith.

Now the frog, all lean and weak,
Yawning from his famished sleep,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc efefcc ffffcc cgcgcc hfhfcc ijijcc kekecc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1011111 10001001 1000111 1111111 1011101 11101101 1011101 00100101 1010101 1010101 1011111 11101101 10100101 11101001 10000101 1010101 1111101 11101101 1011111 10111011 1000101 1010101 1011101 10101101 1010111 1011101 1000101 11100101 010100101 10001101 1011111 1000101 10011101 1010101 1011101 1101101101 1011101 1010101 10010101 10010101 10110111 10101101 1110001 1110111 1110101 1110101 1011101 10001101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 48

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

every