This is an analysis of Hold Your Mad Hands by Robert Southey.
Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain
Must the gorged vulture clog his beak with blood?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacccdeecddd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110111 10101010101 1101110101 10010010101 1111111101 1111010101 11001010101 1101001111 1111011101 0101110101 01010101101 100011000101 1101100111 11001010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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