This is an analysis of To The Same by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

I WOULD I had thy courage, dear, to face
This bankruptcy of love, and greet despair…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbabaacdacd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111110101 0100011101 0101110101 1111010111 1111111111 1101011111 1101011111 0101010101 1111110111 1101010111 1110001101 1101111111 11110010001 1100111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and, i

Anadiplosis

peace