This is an analysis of Sketches In The Exhibition by William Lisle Bowles.
What various objects strike with various force,
Achilles, Hebe, and Sir Watkin's horse!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd e ffggaa X hhffiiccjj X kkllcckkeeee m eeffkkffffffcc i nneeooii X eeffee X ppccXk iXccdmffcciicc
- Stanza lengths: 8,1,6,1,10,1,12,1,14,1,8,1,6,1,6,14,
- Metre: 110010101001 010111101 1101110101 1101011101 1101010001 0101010101 1111011101 1101010111 1011 1101011101 01110101001 0111001111 0101110111 1111011101 1101010011 100011010 1111011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101101101 1111011101 1001110101 1100010101 1101011101 1111110101 11010011001 110010 01100010101 1101001101 11011100101 1101010101 1101111101 1111010001 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 01010001001 1101010101 0011010101 1010 1101010101 1001011111 11011010101 1101010111 1100011111 11100101001 1010010101 10101110101 1101001101 110101100 1000110101 10100110011 1101010101 110101010101 111110 1111110111 11011100110 0101001101 1011010101 0111010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101011101 10110 1011110101 0101010101 0101010111 1101010001 1001010101 1011010101 101100 1011110101 1011010111 1111010111 1001010111 1101010101 1101111100 10101 1010010101 1101110101 11001100101 1111010010 1101111111 101100011001 1101010101 1101010101 11010010101 1101010101 1011000101 11010100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 90
Repeated words/phrases
how
Anaphora
the, and, how
Anadiplosis
thine
