This is an analysis of Quinquagesima Sunday by John Keble.
Sweet Dove! the softest, steadiest plume,
In all the sunbright sky,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcd efef fgfg hihi XjXj efef hehe dbdb ajaj bebe kdkd fdfd elkl jmjm
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101 010101 1000101001 110111 11010111 10111010 10100101 110101 11110101 1111001 10011101 111101 110001001 111111 11110101 1011001 1100001001 1011101 110101001 1101001 111100101 110101 110111010 1001001 11111101 010101 11010101 110101 110001101 110101 11111101 010101 11110101 1101011 010010111 0101001 11010101 100101 11010101 011001 10110101 010101 100111111 011101 10111111 111111 11110101 111111 010101001 111101 11110111 001101 11000111 0101001 11010101 0110101 110110001 0101001 110010101 1100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
love, in