This is an analysis of Sonnet Written After Having Read A. F. Rio’s, Petite Chouaunerie by John Kenyon.
Call not our Bretons backward. What if rude
Of speech and mien, and rude of fashion—drest;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbaaccXbdbdXc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010101 0111110101 1111011101 0101111101 1001110101 100110001 1101010101 1111011100 1011011101 1011010001 1101011101 11110011100 1101010100 1001110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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