This is an analysis of On Landor's 'Hellenics' by William Watson.

Come hither, who grow cloyed to surfeiting
With lyric draughts o'ersweet, from rills that rise…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabXXabaXXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11011100100 01011000111 1101110101 01010001001 1011010100 01001001101 1101110111 11001010101 10010000101 11100111101 1001011111 1001001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12