This is an analysis of Isolation: To Marguerite by Matthew Arnold.
We were apart; yet, day by day,
I bade my heart more constant be.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb cdcXee fgfgcc hfhfii djdjcX akakccXfdfdgg
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 10011111 11111100 11010101 11011101 11111111 11111111 01111111 11110111 01110101 111101000 11110111 11111111 11111101 11010101 101010101 01011101 01011101 10110101 10010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 01101001 01011101 11111101 11010101 100010101 11111101 01011111 110101100 10110111 11111001 10111111 110101001 11110111 110101001 010011111 11110111 01101101 01010011 01111111 01111100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
i, back, and
Anadiplosis
farewell
