This is an analysis of Sonnet On Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde.
I REACHED the Alps: the soul within me burned
Italia, my Italia, at thy name:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdbbdc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010111 0101010111 1101010111 1101111111 1111111111 1101010011 1101110101 0101010111 0111110101 10010100101 11000101001 1111110111 0101010101 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
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