This is an analysis of Corinna by Jonathan Swift.
This day (the year I dare not tell)
Apollo play'd the midwife's part;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXeX XccX eeee XeXe Xfbf cgXg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01011111 010101001 00011101 11010001 11000101 11000101 11011101 10111101 11011101 011111110 111000101 111101110 010101100 10010101 11011101 11010010 11010101 10010111 01001101 11110111 11011101 111100101 11110101 11111111 11011010 10111111 10011101 110010111 010111100 0101010100 110101000 1110010100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
', and
Anaphora
both
