This is an analysis of A Gentle Echo on Woman by Jonathan Swift.
Shepherd. Echo, I ween, will in the woods reply,
And quaintly answer questions. Shall I try?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabbccbbcccdddccddcceebbeeffddddggg
- Stanza lengths: 36,
- Metre: 101011000101 1101010111 101 101111110001 101 101111011101 1001 101111011011 1001 101111011101 1001 100101011111 1010 1011110111110 1010 101111011001 1001 1011111111010 101010 101111111111 101 101111110001 1001 101111110001 1001 101101111111 101 100101110111 101 1010110111110 1010 1001110100010 1010 101101011101 1100110101 10101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
, echo, her, be, she, wind, bang
Epiphora
try, before, her, under, kind, cross, wind, blows, well
