This is an analysis of Déillusion by Lady Jane Wilde.

Too soon, alas! too soon I plunged into the world with tone and clang,
And they scarcely comprehended what the Poet wildly sang.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccdd
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1101111100010111 111010101010101 101001100010101 101010101010110 111001101010111 1110101110010111 11101101010101 11010101110101 11001101010101 111010100010011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

not, but