This is an analysis of Saving Love by Mathilde Blind.

Would we but love what will not pass away!
The sun that on each morning shines as clear…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccaacc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111101101 0111110111 1101110111 0111110101 0101010011 1111011111 1101011111 1101110001 11001000101 1101100101 11110101101 11010101111 1101011001 1110101111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

on, of

Anaphora

the, when

Anadiplosis

die