This is an analysis of On Seeing A Portrait Of Sir Robert Walpole by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Such were the lively eyes and rosy hue
Of Robin's face, when Robin first I knew;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddffddbb
- Stanza lengths: 18,
- Metre: 1001011101 0101110111 0101010101 1011101101 0101110101 1011000111 1101110001 0101010101 0101000101 0101010101 0101010101 0101110001 0101010101 0101100101 1111000101 0101010011 0101010001 1001110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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