This is an analysis of A Little Boy Lost by William Blake.
Nought loves another as itself,
Nor venerates another so,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba acdX dcbc eeXX dFbf XcFc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 10010001 01010101 11011111 11001101 11110101 11110101 01111101 010011101 11110101 110100101 11010101 11010111 11110111 01110100 01011101 01010101 11100101 11101101 11100101 11010101 01010101 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
nor, and, the