This is an analysis of Bothwell Castle by William Wordsworth.

Immured in Bothwell's Towers, at times the Brave
(So beautiful is the Clyde) forgot to mourn…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbacaacbaXbac
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 100010101101 11000010101 0100111100 1111 1 11111 0101110101 0101010111 1101010111 1001001101 1001011111 11010100101 1100111111 100111101101 1101111100 1101110001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

dreams, that