This is an analysis of To Some One! by Radclyffe Hall.

Why kinder to the breeze than unto me?
For oft you let him play within your hair,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbcabbcdeedff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1100011101 1111110111 1011011101 0111011100 0011111101 1111110101 011110101 1101010100 1111001101 0101111101 1111011101 0101011101 1111111111 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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