This is an analysis of Alice Fell, Or Poverty by William Wordsworth.
THE post-boy drove with fierce career,
For threatening clouds the moon had drowned;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dbdb dede bXbe fdfd XbXb fbfb bXbX gbgb Xhih XfXf bbbb dbdb jXji
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01110101 110010111 11110111 11000101 10011101 11011111 01010001 11110101 11100111 11010101 11011111 11110101 01110111 01010101 11010101 01111101 11100101 110111101 11010111 10010101 11110111 11110011 100100111 11010111 111111110 110001010 010101110 010101110 11001111 01111101 111110001 01000101 11011101 01011101 11010111 110100010 01000101 10111101 11011001 11010111 11010111 11010001 11110101 01001100 11010110 01100111 01010111 11110101 01111101 11110111 101110101 11110101 10010111 01010111 11110001 01011101 11000101 11011111 11011011 01010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
and, nor, she, ', her, to
Anaphora
the
