This is an analysis of A Serenade At The Villa by Robert Browning.

I.
That was I, you heard last night,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcb X adada X efefe X bebeb a agaga a hcXch X aiaiX X ghghg X ebebe h bcbcb a hjhjX XXgbhbh
  • Stanza lengths: 1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,7,
  • Metre: 1 1111111 1111111 1010111 10100101 1111111 1 1010001 1010001 1010111 1011001 1110111 1 1100101 10010011 01101101 1010101 1011101 1 1111101 1111111 1010101 1110111 0111101 1 1110111 10111110 1100101 10101010 1111101 1 1010101 1111111 10111110 1010111 1110101 1 1101110 0011101 1011111 1010101 1010101 1 1011101 1011101 1111101 1001001 1110101 1 1110101 1110101 1010101 1111101 1010110 1 10101101 1010101 0010111 1010101 1101111 1 1110101 1000111 1110101 1111111 0110111 1 1111101 1011100 10101011 1110101 1010111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 24
  • Lines: 72

Repeated words/phrases

my

Anaphora

not, when