This is an analysis of Song.—oh, Had I Ne'Er Beheld Thee by Louisa Stuart Costello.
Oh! had I ne'er beheld thee
How calm my life had flown!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb cXdX cada bece
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111101 111111 1111110 111101 1101011 010111 1101010 010100 1100010 011011 1101110 010101 0101010 110101 1101110 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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