This is an analysis of Song by Samuel Johnson.
Not the soft sighs of vernal gales,
The fragrance of the flowery vales,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff aagggg
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 10110101 010001001 01000101 01010101 11111111 11110001 110111001 11010101 110101101 11011101 11010101 01111111 11010111 11011111 11110101 11110101 01010110 11010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
of, all, not, i, and
Anaphora
the, not
