This is an analysis of To Cordelia by Mark Akenside.
JULY, 1740.
From pompous life's dull masquerade,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abbcacdccedefggcfchXbfhffggifi
- Stanza lengths: 1,30,
- Metre: 011 01011101 010011101 11100101 011111001 01010001 0101100101 100110001 11110101 01010101 11010101 11011101 0101010101 01111001 01010101 11100111 011100111 11010101 1101010101 11010101 110111010 110100111 11000101 110100101 1111011011 11110101 11111101 11100101 01111001 10110101 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
from, the, what, o
