This is an analysis of Acknowledgment. by Sidney Lanier.
I.
O Age that half believ'st thou half believ'st,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a XbXbcdcdbebeeX X fbfbabXbgfgfaX X hdhdbabahehebb X iiiibfbfXaXabb
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Metre: 1 1111101110 1101001111 1101011110 1111011011 11110110010 0111111101 1011011010010 0111011111 1001111111 1101000111 1001111111 010100010101 11111100011 10111101010 1 1111010111 11011010101 1101010111 01111101001 0111011111 110010100101 11010100100 1101111111 1001110101 1101001100 1101110111 0101110101 1111111111 1111110100 1 0111111101 1111010101 1001010011 1101010101 1111111101 0111010001 1101111111 01111111001 10011111111 1111011101 0111110111 1101111111 1111111110 10111100100 1 1011011101 1101110101 11110100101 1101111111 11110101001 1101010111 1011011000 1101010101 1101010101 1111110011 0101010100 1101110101 10011111101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 63
Repeated words/phrases
half, and, or, of
Anaphora
and, i, no