This is an analysis of It Is Not To Be Thought Of by William Wordsworth.

. It is not to be thought of that the Flood
Of British freedom, which, to the open sea…

Read full poem

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXabbacacaca
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0010010101 01010100101 0011010100 111010101000 1100110001 1101010101 1011010111 1101010100 0111001101 100000100101 1101111101 1111011101 110101001111 0111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of, to, and

Anaphora

of