This is an analysis of Camma by Oscar Wilde.

AS one who poring on a Grecian urn
Scans the fair shapes some Attic hand hath made,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXXa cXdcdX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1011110111 1011010101 1111010101 11010011111 110010101001 1001010100 1111001111 1110110111 1100111100 11001011101 1101110101 1111001101 0111011100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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