This is an analysis of Love And Music by John Hay.

I gazed upon my love while music smote
The soft night air into glad harmony;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbaabcdecde
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101111101 0111001100 1101000101 11011100111 10110111001 1101001101 0111001101 0111010101 01001010011 0111011101 1100110100 01010011101 1011100101 11100100100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

her

Anaphora

her