This is an analysis of Broken Love by William Blake.
MY Spectre around me night and day
Like a wild beast guards my way;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb bbff ggff aahh ddii eejj bbcc hhjj bbjj iiee kkdd jJal mmhh jJalXladd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110011111 1011111 11010101 10100111 01001101 1110111 1010101 11010101 11111001 1000111 1010111 1110101 1110111 1010111 1010011 1110101 10011111 110011 11011101 10111001 10111111 1011111 110110111 01110101 11011011 1011101 10010101 1010111 1110111 11100101 1110111 111101101 1111111 1111011 1111111 11111101 1010101 1110101 1110111 1110111 1010101 1110011 1010111 1111011 10101111 11101 1011101 1110101 1110001 1110001 1011101 1011101 1110111 11100101 1110100 01000100 1011101 01011101 1010101 000100011 11010111 11100101 1110111 010100100 10110100 10111011 1111001 0011001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 68
Repeated words/phrases
my, with, and, loves, when, thou, wilt, sins, i, to
Anaphora
when
Epiphora
eternity
