This is an analysis of William Tell by William Cullen Bryant.

A SONNET.

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bccXdeedeaaebb
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,
  • Metre: 010 11010101011 1001011111 1110010101 0101010100 11010101001 10110111011 1101111101 11111101101 1111010101 1101010101 1011010011 0100110001 0101110101 1011011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

thy