This is an analysis of His Indian Love To Diogo Alvarez by Louisa Stuart Costello.
ON HIS DEPARTURE FROM BAHIA
When thou stoodst amidst thy countrymen…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abab Xcde fffecf fbfb gcgcge acac dhdh iijjXddjj
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,6,4,6,4,4,9,
- Metre: 100100100 111011100 110111 11010101 110101 10100101010 110001 111011101 111100 111010101 110010111 1111101 11111100 1010111101 100101 1111100101 1011100101 111110101 1111110101 1010111001 01011111 1101100111 1010101 111110111 111110100 111011111 1110111 1111101101 011101 0100111111 010111 111100111 10100101 101011101001 10101110101 111110111 101111111 1011111001 1110110101 110111011 1101101111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
like, no
Anaphora
, thou
