This is an analysis of Speak! by William Wordsworth.

WHY art thou silent! Is thy love a plant
   Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXbcdcede
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111001101 11110101001 1101011111 0111011101 1111110100 1011000101 01110010100 1111110011 1101111101 1101010111 0111001101 1001011101 1011010101 11110011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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