This is an analysis of The Fate Of The Lyrist by Lady Jane Wilde.
The soul is ever clinging unto form;
Action, not abstract thought, alone can warm…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbbcdddceXecfffc
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 0101010101 1010110111 011001000111 110101 0100110101 11010010101 0110110011 01010000100 11010100001 1001101111 1101010111 00010100 11011001000 1101010010 0101000100 1110000100 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 01110100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20

