This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxiii: To Aetna's Scorching Sands by Mary Darby Robinson.
To AEtna's scorching sands my Phaon flies!
False Youth! can other charms attractive prove?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcXcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 010101111 1111010101 11010011101 1111111101 10010100101 10111010101 11110011001 1101011101 1111110111 01011110111 11010010101 1101010111 1111110101 1001010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
thy
