This is an analysis of A Pleasant Invective Against Printing by Henry Austin Dobson.
The Press is too much with us, small and great:
We are undone of chatter and on dit,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabba XaXacc
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0101101111 1101010111 0111010101 1111110101 1001010001 1100110101 0101111101 11010011101 1101011100 110100001 1101011111 1101011101 0101111111 0101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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