This is an analysis of A Poison Tree by William Blake.

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ddee ffgg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1110011 11111101 1110011 11011101 1110001 1110011 1110001 1010101 1011111 1011101 1111001 1111011 1001101 1011101 0010111 11010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

my, i, wrath, and, with, it

Anaphora

i, and