This is an analysis of On An Old Deluded Suitor by George Moses Horton.
See sad deluded love, in years too late,
With tears desponding o'er the tomb of fate,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccbbddeeffgghhccccccff
- Stanza lengths: 28,
- Metre: 1101010011 01100100101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101011001 1111010101 0111010101 1111011101 1101010101 1001010101 0100110001 110111111 0101010101 1010010101 0101000101 1101010101 101110111 1111010111 0111010111 1101010111 11010100101 11111100101 0101011101 0101110101 0101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 28
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