This is an analysis of Through Foulest Fogs by James Thomson.

THROUGH foulest fogs of my own sluggish soul,
Through midnight glooms of all the wide world's guilt,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101011101 1111010111 11001011111 0101010101 110110101 0101010101 10011101010 10110001001 1111010101 1101011110 0101110101 0111011101 0101000101 1100010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

through, of, all

Anaphora

through, a