This is an analysis of Love And Beauty: Ii: To The Same by Sydney Thompson Dobell.

Oh Soul! that this fair flower dost so mirrour,
Ask of thyself, saying-'Soul beautiful,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaabbaabcXccXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11101101110 1010101100 1101110101 11111110110 11110101010 1010010001 10011010111 11110111010 1111111010 010101100 11010111010 011110110001 01011110100 110101110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

soul, oh, god