This is an analysis of An Elegy On Parting by James Thomson.
It was a sad, ay 'twas a sad farewell,
I still afresh the pangs of parting feel;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeccffXXgghhiiiiffdd
- Stanza lengths: 30,
- Metre: 0101110111 1101010101 0111110101 1011010101 1001001101 1111110101 100111110011 1101001101 0101010101 1001010111 1101011101 11010011101 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1001011111 0110010111 01010010111 0101011101 1011010101 1101010101 1101010101 0011011101 1101111101 111011001011 0101010011 0111010101 1101111101 1111111101 11010111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
my, i, with, in, vain
Anaphora
in
