This is an analysis of Austerity Of Poetry by Matthew Arnold.
That son of Italy who tried to blow,
Ere Dante came, the trump of sacred song,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdeXcde
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
- Metre: 1101001101 1101010101 0011010101 1001010101 1101110101 1101110101 11010010101 0111110111 110010010111 10011010111 0101010111 1100110111 10001110101 0110110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
