This is an analysis of The Better Part by Matthew Arnold.
Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man,
How angrily thou spurn'st all simpler fare!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbXXcccccX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111011101 11001111001 1111110111 11110101101 1111111111 11111100111 01110011110 11110110101 11001111101 1111011011 11110101101 1101010101 1101111111 0111101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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