This is an analysis of Matthew by William Wordsworth.
IF Nature, for a favourite child,
In thee hath tempered so her clay,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeX fafa XgXg dXdX hahaXabab
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 010101001 01110101 1100101111 11011101 110111111 01011101 01010001 010001100 11010101 10110011 11010101 10110100 10010111 10010111 11000111 11011111 110101010 01010101 10010101 11000101 01110101 0110101110 01110101 010101010 10110101 011100111 01101101 11010101 11011101 11011100 111101001 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
of
Anaphora
thou