This is an analysis of From 'Pauline' by Robert Browning.
O God, where does this tend—these struggling aims?
What would I have? What is this ‘sleep’, which seems…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXcbbXdefegXhedgec dhXbXegfbaXXeeeffdeeXddX
- Stanza lengths: 20,24,
- Metre: 11110111001 1111100111 0111100101 0101011101 0101011011 0111011101 0101010100 0111110101 11010101010 0011111110 1101110111 11111111111 1111010101 1101010111 01111110011 11111111111 1111110011 1101111111 1101110101 1101111111 1111110011 11110001111 0010110001 1111110111 1111111011 1101011111 1111011101 1111110111 1101110111 1111011001 1101111111 0101010100 1111011101 0111011101 10110110111 1011111111 1001111111 11110011111 0101111111 1101010101 0011110100 1101110101 1100110101 1100110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
it, god, i, thee, and, which, my, him, me, have, or
Anaphora
i, why, or
Epiphora
thee
