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.…
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