This is an analysis of Infant Sorrow by William Blake.

My mother groaned, my father wept,
Into the dangerous world I leapt;…

Read full poem

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 11011101 000100111 1010101 1011001 10001101 10011101 1110111 01011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

my