This is an analysis of A Lovers' Quarrel by Robert Browning.
I.
Oh, what a dawn of day!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a aabbaaa X ccddccc X Eeffeee X gghhggg a dddddXd a bbeebbb X bbhhbbb X hhiihhh X jjiijjj h bbkkbbb a Eekkeee X Eelleee X mmXjXmX X jjeejjj X jjeejjj X ddiiddd X nnllnnn X hgddggg X lloollX X jjjjXjj X aaccaaX XXnniinnn
- Stanza lengths: 1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,9,
- Metre: 1 110101 1011111 10101 10111 10110111 101101 11110101 1 101101 1010101 00101 10101 10110101 100101 11110111 1 101101 1111101 10111 01001 01110111 101101 11110101 1 101101 1011101 11111 10101 00111101 111101 111001111 1 1001001 10100111 111001 00101 11110101 1111010 11100101 1 100101 101100111 101101 00101 10111101 111111 1011101 1 101101 1111111 10101 10101 001010101 1010111 10111111 1 111111 1010101 101101 11101 11100101 100101 1011101 1 111111 0010111 10111 10101 10100101 110101 10111111 1 110101 1010101 11111 00111 11100101 101111 10100111 1 101101 1010001 00111 10101 10110111 111101 1011011 1 101101 1111101 11101 11101 10100101 101101 1010111 1 100101 1010101 10111 10111 10110100 1100111 00110101 1 101011 1011111 11111 11101 11110101 111101 00100101 1 101101 1111011 11101 10111 1010101 100101 1011101 1 100101 0010111 10111 10111 10110111 110101 101101 1 100111 1111111 10101 11111 11000101 100111 100101 1 1001111 1010101 11101 00101 10110111 100101 11100101 1 110101 0010111 10101 00101 11110101 100101 1010111 1 100111 0010101 11101 10101 0010010100 101101 10100111 1 100111 1110111 10111 11111 101101011 111111 0110111 1 110101 1011101 00101 11101 00100111 1110101 11101101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 44
- Lines: 176
Repeated words/phrases
in, and, to, i, her
Anaphora
when, in, we, and, i