This is an analysis of Ode To The Johns Hopkins University by Sidney Lanier.
How tall among her sisters, and how fair, --
How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdccdeeffgggggghhiijjbbikaajjiibbggcc ffiklliimmcc ccaaggnnbbffccccbbbbXdgXddXXbbffbbccikbbccaX
- Stanza lengths: 42,12,44,
- Metre: 1101010111 1101011101 1111010011 1101010101 01110101001 1111010101 0101010101 10111 10011010101 0101010111 1100000 11010100010 11001011101 11010101101 110001010111 01010011001 11111 011101 110010101 110011011 1101010111 0011011001 11001010101 10010101 010101 0100111 11011111001 1101000101 010000111 11100 0101111111 0101110101 1101011111 001001001 1101000101 0101010101 1101010101 1100011 1101011111 1100010111 0111010101 0101010101 1101 0100001111 1111001111 10011111100 1111110111 1101011101 01101010111 0111010101 11010100101 1111110101 1111110111 1101000101 1111010101 11110011111 1101010101 01110101 110101 1111010101 11001100101 0101110101 1101110101 1101010011 1101010101 0101011111 1101010101 01010001 111101 1101010101 1011101 1101001101 1111000101 01010101 01110100101 1111010011 1101000101 01101100 01 1111011101 11001011101 01001110100 1101010101 1100010101 0101110111 1110001001 111111011 0001011101 1101 01010100001 11001111001 1101011100 1111010001 11111100100 1111010101 11010010100 1101010101 01110111000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 98
Repeated words/phrases
how, this, thus, and, she, where, bring
Anaphora
how, thus, bring, and
