This is an analysis of The Court Of Penance by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

Behold the Court of Penance. Four gaunt walls
Shutting out all things but the upper heaven.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbaba cdcccd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0101010111 10111101010 1111110011 01010001010 111110010010 1111111100 10011101010 1001000111 1011010101 0101101101 1100111011 0111111100 101010011101 1011001101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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