This is an analysis of The Natural Beauty by Samuel Johnson.

To Stella:
Whether Stella's eyes are found…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbccccaAccddeeffccggaAeecc
  • Stanza lengths: 1,28,
  • Metre: 010 1010111 1111101 0010101 0111101 0010101 1011101 1011111 1010101 0101101 1011101 0010101 1010100 1110101 1010101 0110101 0110111 0111011 1111101 10100101 1011111 1010111 1000101 1010101 1011101 1110111 1010101 1110111 10111111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

if, which

Anaphora

if, still, which

Epiphora

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