This is an analysis of To Nimue by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

I had clean forgotten all, her face who had caused my trouble.
Gone was she as a cloud, as a bird which passed in the wind, as a glittering stream--borne bubble,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbX ccX aaa ddd eee ffX ggX fff hhhXfff
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Metre: 111010101111110 11110110111001101001110 10111101101101111010 1110100110111101 111110010011100100111111 111011111111111111 101011010100111 10010011111111111100101 1101001010101100 101101110101001 1101101110111111101101 111001111011111011 111001010101001 00101001101010011011101 0010100100110111001 1110011001101010 0101001010100110100110010 1101001110110110010 1110101111001001 10101111001010110101 110101101001001001 10101110111001 111010110010010010101101 01111111101001001 111101111101111 111001011110010011100101 1100111001111101001 1111111110111101 111001011110101110100101 11101011011101111 1111011010101101 11111011101101111110101 101011010110110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 11
  • Lines: 33

Repeated words/phrases

as, had, on, i, have, its, who, not, to, of, her, and, she, with

Anaphora

i, what, to, and