This is an analysis of Despair by Mathilde Blind.
Thy wings swoop darkening round my soul, Despair!
And on my brain thy shadow seems to brood…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXba cdcddc
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 11110011101 1111111101 11110100101 01010011111 1101011111 1101010110 0111000101 0111110001 1111100111 10011101001 11010100101 0101010101 1111010001 11111100111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
thy
Anaphora
and
