This is an analysis of Love Triumphant by Sir Lewis Morris.

LOVE took me up, a naked, helpless child,
Love laid me sleeping on the tender breast,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababaa cacadd efefgg hXhfbb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111010101 1111010111 1111110101 1111011100 1101110111 1101110111 1001110101 110100101 10110100101 1101111101 1111111111 1011110111 01110100101 1101100101 1101110101 111000100101 1101011101 1111110111 11110001010 1111010111 1101010101 1001010101 0011010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

love, me, my, with, and

Anaphora

love, and

Anadiplosis

love