This is an analysis of To Ailsa Rock by John Keats.

Hearken, thou craggy ocean-pyramid,
Give answer by thy voice—the sea-fowls' screams!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXXXcXcbcb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011010100 11011100111 1011010011 1001111101 1111010101 11010101010 10010101100 1111111100 1101111101 1101111000 0101010001 1001100101 1111111111 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

thy

Anaphora

when