This is an analysis of Invita Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Not of desire alone is music born,
Not till the Muse wills is our passion crowned;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbcbcb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10010010101 1101101101 1011011101 0101110001 1001010101 0101010101 1101110001 1101010111 0101111101 1001010001 1001111101 0111010001 11001000101 11010001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
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