This is an analysis of To A Young Ass, Its Mother Being Tethered Near It by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race!
I love the languid patience of thy face:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddaXeeddee ffgXbXeehhbbggggdd
- Stanza lengths: 18,18,
- Metre: 110101011 1101010011 1101011111 1111011111 111110101 1101110101 1101010011 11011100101 1101010101 1101001101 0101110101 110100001010 10111101001 0111010101 1101010001 1001010101 1011010101 1101010101 1111011101 1011110101 1111111111 11000010100 1100011101 0101111111 1001110101 1111010011 1111101001 0111010001 1111010101 1101010101 11111101001 1101111101 111100101 1100110110 1101001101 0100110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, thy
Anaphora
and
