This is an analysis of God's Judgment On A Wicked Bishop by Robert Southey.

The summer and autumn had been so wet,
That in winter the corn was growing yet,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cccdd eecc ccbb ccdd eefX egff ddhh hhfX geeeX egiX eecc jjhh aacc iiaa cccc ddcc cccckkXjjhh
  • Stanza lengths: 4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,11,
  • Metre: 0101101011 1010011101 1010101101 01110101 10010101 100110101 1110100111 11010011 01000101 11101001001 010010101 110001101 1111110101 01110001 01110111 011111011 0101101111 111101111 101011101 111101111 11100011101 10011100100011 100100100101 110001101 0111001010 110010011 1111010100 11111111001 1101010101 0010111001 101010101 011111011 10111001001 1111101001 1101001001 101110110001 1011101110 010110100 11111110 1011101011 1010111001 0101111000 101011010100011 1001010100 011110111 10101101010 10101001001 111010101 110101101 101011111 11111101 11011101 110111101 1010010101 11011011001 10101111011 11110101 10100110101 11111001011 11110111 110101101 010111101 111001101011 11011111011 11011001001 101011001001 11010101 11011001011 110110101 010011111 10101010101 1101101011 11001011101 001101001101 001101001101 1111001011 1110110101 11110101 110101001 1101011011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 19
  • Lines: 80

Repeated words/phrases

and, he, by, they, from

Anaphora

the, and, such, from