This is an analysis of To Robert Batty, M.D., On His Giving Me A Lock Of Milton's Hair by James Henry Leigh Hunt.
It lies before me there, and my own breath
Stirs its thin outer threads, as though beside…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba bbcbcX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0101111111 1011011101 01011101001 1001011101 0111011101 10110111011 1101010101 0111101101 1101011001 00010010101 0111010001 0100111001 10110001001 0101000100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
his, it
