This is an analysis of Ellen Irwin by William Wordsworth.
Fair Ellen Irwin, when she sate
Upon the braes of Kirtle,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcddeX ebcbffgg heXeiijj hjhikkll eimjiiaa hjXjmmbb bjXibbaX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11010111 010101 11010101 0101010 11010101 11010101 0111010 0101010 010111010 0110010 11010001 1101010 11001101 10100101 0111010 1101110 11110111 0101110 00110101 01110110 01110111 01010101 1011010 1001110 110100101 11011100 11110101 11010100 11010101 11010101 0001010 0101010 11000101 1101010 10010011 0101010 11111111 01010101 1101010 0101010 11011101 1100100 01010101 0111110 11001101 11001101 0101010 1101010 11110011 0111010 10100111 0101010 11010101 11010101 1111010 10011100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
and, many, his
Anaphora
thus