This is an analysis of Sonnet 10 by Robert Southey.

How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns
The gather'd tempest! from that lurid cloud…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacdcdeefbfb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11010111101 0101001101 01110110011 1101010101 11010010101 1101110001 0111110001 10110101001 11011011101 1101010101 1001111111 1001110101 1110110101 11011100011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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