This is an analysis of Sonnet: At Dover Cliffs, July 20th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles.
On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood
Uplift their shadowing heads, and, at their feet,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcbeebaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110101 10110011111 1101111101 11001010011 1101010101 11001010011 1111010111 0110011111 0101011101 1011111101 0111110101 1111010001 1101111001 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
he
Anaphora
and
