This is an analysis of The Nymph's Song To Hylas by William Morris.
I KNOW a little garden-close
Set thick with lily and red rose,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbc cddeed dddffggXf bbeeh hiiaaff
- Stanza lengths: 5,6,9,5,7,
- Metre: 11010101 11010111 11110011 01010101 11101100 11010111 11110101 11010111 01110101 01010111 11100101 11010001 10011111 10010101 11100101 011101101 01111101 11010101 11011000 10011111 11111111 11111101 11011111 10010101 11011111 110011111 11110101 01010101 11001101 01010001 11111101 100100001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, though, once
Anaphora
and, drawn, the, for
