This is an analysis of A Light Woman by Robert Browning.

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So far as our story approaches the end,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a baba X cded X cfcf X cbcb a gbgb a bebe X dXdg X hchX X fifi e dddd a aeae X cjcj X klkl XXcbcb
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
  • Metre: 1 11111001001 1111001011 111010011 0010111 1 1110101001 1100100101 1110100101 1101101 1 111110001 011101111 001110101 010101 1 101110100 110010111 110010101 11110101 1 1110111101 111010101 111111101 1110101 1 01011011001 010100101 110111101 100101 1 111111011 11110100 1110010101 010011 1 11001110101 111011101 1110110101 1010011 1 111101111 1011101001 101011101 1111101 1 011010101 00100110101 110010111 1110101 1 1111101111 1111100111 11101111101 110101 1 111010101 110010111 1101110101 1101101 1 110101101 1010110101 1011110111 1111101 1 110110101 111111101 1101011001 10011011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 28
  • Lines: 70

Repeated words/phrases

her, my, it, i

Anaphora

and, the, what