This is an analysis of Sonnet: At Ostend, July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles.
How sweet the tuneful bells' responsive peal!
As when, at opening morn, the fragrant breeze…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccabddXXX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010101 11110010101 11010010101 1100111111 11010010111 1101011101 1111010101 10110010101 0101110100 1111010111 01010011001 110110110010 11011111110 0101111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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