This is an analysis of Sonnet: On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep At A Tale Of Distress by William Wordsworth.

She wept.--Life's purple tide began to flow
In languid streams through every thrilling vein;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeXdd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010101 01011100101 1011011111 111111010101 1111011101 01010100011 1101011101 11010011101 1101011101 110101001110 1011010101 11001001110101 1101010001 010101011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

my, and

Anaphora

that