This is an analysis of To Cole, The Painter, Departing For Europe by William Cullen Bryant.

A SONNET.

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bccbXbbbdeedaa
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,
  • Metre: 010 1111010101 1111110101 0101001101 11111100101 11010101010 1101010101 1101010111 01111010101 111111111 11001010101 1111000101 0111001111 1101011111 11110010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16