This is an analysis of Love: An Elegy by Mark Akenside.
Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known,
Too long to Love hath reason left her throne;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccdd eeffbb bbbbbbaaffggbbaa hheeiiddbbeeggbbbbjjhhdd aabbccaaiibbee bbkkccaakkddeeeellccbbhhhheemmggbb ffddaaffbbeeXffiiaaaaddbbiiddaa
- Stanza lengths: 10,6,16,24,14,34,31,
- Metre: 11110101011 1101110101 1111010101 1110010101 11010101001 01010010101 1110011101 11001010101 0111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 11010101001 0111010101 1101001101 1111010101 11011110010 110101010010 1101011101 111101010001 1100011101 1101110101 1101110101 110111001 11010100101 1101010101 1101110101 1111111101 10110110101 1101000111 1111011101 1111000101 1111010101 1101010111 11010101101 1101010101 1101010101 01001000101 1101010101 1011110101 11100100111 0111010101 1011010101 11010101001 1011010001 1101110101 11001010101 01001010101 0101000101 1111010111 1101111101 0110010101 1101010101 0101010101 11010001001 01010000101 1101111101 000010000101 0111000111 1101010101 0101010101 1011110001 0111000101 0111010001 01001010101 1111110111 11011100101 010101001 1101000101 0111010101 1101101101 1101010101 010100100101 1101000101 1111010111 1111011001 1101010101 1011110111 11011100111 0011010111 0001001101 1101011111 1111011101 1101011101 1101111101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010111 0101110101 1111010111 0101110101 0111100101 0111110101 1111011101 110111011001 1101011001 11001110111 1101111001 1101011101 1101010001 1111010101 1001010001 11001110101 1101011001 11010100101 0111110101 1101010101 1101010101 1011110101 0101011101 01110010101 1001010001 0111010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 1111000101 0101010101 1011001101 0101010001 0110010101 01000100101 11110011001 0101000111 0111011101 1101010111 1111011101 1101011101 1111011101 11010110011 11100101101 01010101001 101011100101 1101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 134
Repeated words/phrases
too, and, see, with, her, can, to, my, thy
Anaphora
too, through, for, see, i, when, the, behold, thy, each
