This is an analysis of Prefatory Sonnets I by Henry Kendall.
I purposed once to take my pen and write,
Not songs, like some, tormented and awry…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcaababdeXdde bffbcffbXXeeee
- Stanza lengths: 14,14,
- Metre: 11001011111 1111110101 1101010100 0111010111 1101010111 1101010111 1011010111 1111010101 1111010101 1101110100 1011101001 1101010101 1111110111 1101110101 1111010110 11110101001 1100010101 11100100101 0101111100 1111010101 1101100101 1101110101 11010011001 1101110101 1101010101 11110111001 1101010101 1101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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