This is an analysis of A Sketch by William Wordsworth.

The little hedgerow birds,
That peck along the road, regard him not.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbXacbbXXcca
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101001 1101010111 1101100101 01010101001 0111010101 0111110111 0110100001 0101010111 1101010101 11011101010 1101110101 1111101101 0110110101 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

his

Anaphora

his

Epiphora

whom