This is an analysis of For A Column At Runnymede by Mark Akenside.
Thou, who the verdant plain dost traverse here
While Thames among his willows from thy view…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXabccddXaXb
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 1101011101 1101011011 0111011101 0110110001 1101010101 1101001101 1101010101 0100110111 1111110011 1111010001 0101010111 01100101001 1111010101 1111101101 01010101010 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
