This is an analysis of How Sweet I Roam'D by William Blake.

How sweet I roam'd from field to field,
And tasted all the summer's pride…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXa bcbc dede fXfX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11110101 11010101 1010110 10010101 110110111 11010111 11110101 11010101 01111101 110101101 11100101 11100101 11011111 11011101 11011101 11110100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

then