This is an analysis of I Grieved For Buonaparte by William Wordsworth.

I GRIEVED for Buonaparte, with a vain
And an unthinking grief! The tenderest mood…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaababcddcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 111100001 11010101001 0111110011 1011110111 1101010111 0100110110 1100010001 1100111101 1011010101 1100110101 11011100101 0011011001 1111110001 11011110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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