This is an analysis of Homer's Hymn To The Earth: Mother Of All by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
O universal Mother, who dost keep
From everlasting thy foundations deep,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbd bbeefffbXXXggbdXccdb
- Stanza lengths: 9,20,
- Metre: 1101010111 0101010101 1001111101 1111110001 1111110101 1111110111 1011110101 11111111001 1111010100 0101010111 01110111101 10111111010 11100101110 1001010101 0101011101 1011110101 11001010111 01010101000 11010111010 11110101110 0110011101 10110011101 1101010111 110110010100 10011101010 11010101010 0101101100 1111011100000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
thy, and, be, thou
Anaphora
all
