This is an analysis of The Expiation by Lady Jane Wilde.
Full seven times the summer sun
Had waked the dreaming summer flowers,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgcgcfhbhbgXg ijcjXkcXhhlhafafhXblififkkaaXaefefaa ccccllffmhmhXgjg
- Stanza lengths: 24,36,16,
- Metre: 11010101 1100101010 11011101 010101110 11110101 11011111 11010101 01110001 01111001 0111010101 01010101 11110001 10111101 01110001 11010101 11010001 11011001 01011101 110111010 11010001 11110101 110100111 11011111 01111111 11010111 01010111 11111101 01110101 11011101 01011101 01010011 01010100 11010111 10011111 11010101 01010101 110111100 11010101 01010001 01010101 11111101 1101010111 11100111 11010101 01110101 11110101 111111001 01110101 11111111 111101001 11110111 100100101 11101001000 10100101 110010101 01011101 11010101 11010101 101010111 01010101 11010101 11010101 10010101 110110001 11110011 11011101 100110001 10010101 11000101 0110101 010010100 0010111 1010100101 110001 110011111 11101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 76
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, she, one, nor, of
Anaphora
the, and, nor
