This is an analysis of Sonnet : To A Balloon Laden With Knowledge by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even
Silently takest thine aethereal way,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacdcdefefaa
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11011101010 1001011001 1001010111 100010111010 01010110111 11010000101 111000101 01110100101 01010000111 0111010101 1101010111 0100010001 01110010101 1111111110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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Anaphora

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