This is an analysis of Comfort by Sir Lewis Morris.

THO' love be bought and honour sold,
The sunset keeps its glow of gold,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb cccc dddX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11011101 01110101 11010101 01110111 11010101 11011101 111101011 01011001 11011101 01010101 11011111 01010111 01011101 01010101 11010101 100010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

tho', of

Anaphora

tho', from