This is an analysis of On Another's Sorrow by William Blake.
Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrow too?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd cceE ffcc ggcc eeeE ffaa eecc eehh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110101 1100101 1110101 1111101 1110101 1111101 1010101 1100101 1010111 11011101 1110100 1010100 1111111 1010101 1011111 1011101 1110101 1010011 1110101 1011101 1111111 1011101 1110100 1010100 1110101 1011101 1010101 1110101 1111101 1110011 1111101 1110011 1110101 1111101 1110111 1111111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
can, never, hear, he, not
Anaphora
hear, he
Epiphora
be
