This is an analysis of Shakespeare by Mathilde Blind.

YEARNING to know herself for all she was,
Her passionate clash of warring good and ill,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabbaab cacaca
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1001011111 01001010011 0111010111 010010001111 1101110101 1101101100 1101111111 1110011001 01011000111 1101111101 11010011111 1100010111 1111110101 0101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

her