This is an analysis of Song.—thou Wert Lovely by Louisa Stuart Costello.

Thou wert lovely to my sight,
When in yonder dell I found thee…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc ababdd
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 1110011 10101111 01100101 10101011 10111010 10001010 1110101 11111111 1011101 11101111 1110100 1111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12