This is an analysis of The Lover Pleads by Jean Ingelow.

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When I had guineas many a one…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bbbbccddXXaa X eebbeeaX ffgg
  • Stanza lengths: 1,12,1,8,4,
  • Metre: 1 111101001 1111101 11110101 00110101 11011101 001110100 10111011 11011111 010101100 01101100 1011100 111110101 1 01010111 10110001 11011101 11010101 11011101 01110101 11110111 001001101 011101110 11111110 010001010 01111110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

i, to

Anaphora

the