This is an analysis of The Fly by William Blake.
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaba aaXa Xcbc XdXd aaXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101 1101 1101 1101 111 0111 1111 0111 111 1111 1111 1111 0101 1111 101 0101 111 0101 011 1011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
and, i
Anaphora
and
