This is an analysis of Lost Mistress, The by Robert Browning.
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All's over, then: does truth sound bitter…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcXc X dada X efef X gbgb aXabab
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
- Metre: 1 110111110 111101 110100110 011101 1 1011101110 110101 111101010 110111 1 0101101110 1111101 111111010 111101 1 1110011111 11101010 111110101 101011110 1 110111111 1100110 10111111111 11101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 25