This is an analysis of Sometimes I Watch You, Mark Your Brooding Eyes by Lesbia Harford.

Sometimes I watch you, mark your brooding eyes,
Your grave brow over-weighted with deep thought,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 0111111101 1111010011 1111010101 1101001111 1110011001 1110111101 01111111001 0111010011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

your

Anaphora

your