This is an analysis of When The Sultan Goes To Ispahan by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

When the Sultan Shah-Zaman
Goes to the city Ispahan,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabccbbbXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 13,
  • Metre: 1010110 10010100 10011111 1011010111 1010010101 010010101 1001001001 10010101 1001010001 11101101 100101010 11101101 1111101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

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