This is an analysis of To My Wife by James Clerk Maxwell.
Oft in the night, from this lone room
I long to fly o’er land and sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede fgfg ghgh ijij bdbd kiki bibiXgege
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10010011 11011111 01010101 111101 11011101 11111111 11111111 110101 11111101 01110101 11010101 011111 11111111 11011101 10110101 110111 11010000 11110001 11111101 010111 11010111 11010101 11010101 011111 11111101 11110101 01111111 111001 100111111 11010111 11010111 110101 10111111 10111101 110011101 111101 110011100 11011111 11011101 111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
to, we, that, and
Anaphora
and, we, that