This is an analysis of Preludium To Europe by William Blake.
The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc,
Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXa abXc dbXX baea aeca aaXa abdX bXXX aX
- Stanza lengths: 3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Metre: 010100111010101 010110000101000 110101 11010001111101 01110101111101 1111001 1011100000101010 111100010110101 11111001111101 011010 11111001011001 11110011011101 11010101010111 101111 11010101110101 010111010010101 10010001010101 1111010 1111010101001001 010010101011110010 01000101100101 1101000 110101010100010 1110110101001 11110001011101 111111 11110101110101 11110100010101 01000101111100 01110 11011111011101 11110101 000101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
my, in, and, of, it
Anaphora
and
