This is an analysis of To The Committee Of The Cayley Portrait Fund by James Clerk Maxwell.
O wretched race of men, to space confined!
What honour can ye pay to him, whose mind…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabba ccdXdd bbbbbb eeaffa
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1101010101 1101110111 01110111010 0101111101 1111110101 01110111010 1101000101 1101010111 01010101010 110001101 0101010101 11000100010 111100001 0101110101 11001001010 1101001111 11011101101 01010001010 1101010101 1001010111 11011100010 0101010111 0111111101 01010101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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