This is an analysis of To The Lord Chancellor by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
I.
Thy country's curse is on thee, darkest crest…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbc Xdede XfXfa Xgcgc ahbhb abibi Xjcjc Xifif XkXlm mmcmc alblb Xbdbd Xgege Xhkhk XeeeX Xhghg
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 1 1101011101 0111010101 1111010101 1101000101 1 1101011101 1101011101 1101010101 1111011001 1 1111110111 1001010000 0101010101 1101011111 1 1101010111 1101010111 0111110101 0111010101 1 1111010111 1111011101 1101011101 1111110101 1 1110010101 10010010101 101011000101 1001000101 1 11100010011 1110010101 01001110101 1101011111 1 1101010101 11010100100 1011010101 1001011101 1 11011011001 0101110100 1101010100 1011011100 1 10111111001 11110111001 1011110001 1110010001 1 111010111010 1101010101 011000110110 111111001001 1 1101000111 1111110101 0101110111 0101011111 1 1111011111 1101110111 1111100101 11111100101 1 1101110101 1101110101 11101011101 1011111101 1 1001110101 1111011101 0101111011 11010101111 1 1111111111 0111010101 0111010111 0110010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 80
Repeated words/phrases
be, on, thy, by, and, thee
Anaphora
by, the
