This is an analysis of Sonnet 02 by Richard Chenevix Trench.

I stood beside a pool, from whence ascended,
Mounting the cloudy platforms of the wind,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaXba bXbXcc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 11010101010 1001011001 010100101010 1011110101 110101001010 01010101010 0101001101 100100010010 1101100101 01010101010 0110011011 11110101110 1101011001 01010111011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

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