This is an analysis of St. Valentine's Day by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
TO-DAY, all day, I rode upon the down,
With hounds and horsemen, a brave company…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXaaXbaababcc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111110101 0111001100 1010010101 1101010101 0111110011 1111010101 1111011111 1011100101 110011111010 1011101111 01111111110 1101110111 1111011011 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, i
Anaphora
on, and
