This is an analysis of Taste by Mark Akenside.
What, then, is taste but those internal powers,
Active and strong, and feeling alive…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaXabXbX
- Stanza lengths: 9,
- Metre: 11011101010 101111001 0110100101 0101010101 01011100011 0100111101 1101110101 1101110101 0101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
and, nor
