This is an analysis of Love Is Strong by Richard Francis Burton.

A VIEWLESS thing is the wind,
But its strength is mightier far…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 0101001 10101001 1010010101 10100101 1010101 1011100 1010011101 1110111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

than, and