This is an analysis of To Miss Hickman, Playing The Spinet by Samuel Johnson.
Bright Stella, form'd for universal reign,
Too well you know to keep the slaves you gain;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbaaaccddeefeffgg
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 1101110101 1111010111 1011100101 1001110101 1101000101 1111010101 11010100111 1101011101 1110010101 10010100101 01010100001 1111011101 110011101010 11010101010 1101010101 11011101010 1101000101 0101010101 01010100001 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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