This is an analysis of To The Same by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Though old in ill, the traitor sure should find
Some secret sting transfix his guilty mind.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggaaaaffccgghhggccaaiiaajjkkaagghheXjjaallllccddggaaddjjcc
- Stanza lengths: 70,
- Metre: 1101010111 1101010101 1111010101 11011000101 1101010101 0111010101 1111110111 0101010111 1111010111 1101010101 0101010101 1111011101 11010110101 1101111001 1101110101 0101000101 1111010101 1101110101 0101110101 01010111011 1011010101 1101011101 11001010101 0101011101 1011011111 10010010101 1111010101 110111001 1101010110 1111010001 1111010111 1011000101 1001010101 1101111001 11010010101 01001100101 0101001101 0101010101 0101111101 1101110101 11001101001 1001000101 1111000101 10101111111 1101010101 1101001111 1011110101 110101110100 1101011111 0111101101 0101110111 0101000101 11110111101 0101010101 1001110101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010111 1101010101 1101010101 01011100111 1110110001 10010100101 01001110101 10011000101 1111010101 11110100101 10110100111 0101000101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 70
Repeated words/phrases
his, you, to, and
Anaphora
when, a, and