This is an analysis of La Sombra De Mis Cabellos. From The Spanish.—sixteenth Century by Lady Jane Wilde.

My love lay there,
In the shadow of my hair,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccB ddbeeBfffggfaabddB
  • Stanza lengths: 6,18,
  • Metre: 1111 0011011 11101010101 111101 0111101 1111010011 0010111 111101 10101010011 1110001 1111001 1111010011 111101 1110101 1011011101 1111111 1010101 11110010101 1111101 1010111 01001001010101 1100111 110101 1111010011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

my, he, his

Anaphora

and