This is an analysis of Catarian. From The Portuguese Of Camoens by Lady Jane Wilde.
A movement of the soft eyes, slow and eloquent,
A smile of sweet, yet of such chastened joy,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXabX XbXcabaXcXXb
- Stanza lengths: 8,12,
- Metre: 010001111100 0101101101 1100010001 01010101110 010100111010 0101010111 1111010011 1111010011 0111010001 11000100111 01110101010 0101011101 01010101001 1101010101 1001001101 0101010100100 0101010101 0001010011 0001010111 11110100010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
of
Anaphora
a, this
