This is an analysis of On The Extinction Of The Venetian Republic by William Wordsworth.

ONCE did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;
   And was the safeguard of the West: the worth…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbXaccadadada
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011010101 1101100101 1100110101 1001010100 1101010111 1101111100 1111100101 1101010101 1101111101 1101011101 1111000101 1011110101 11111111001 1111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of, she