This is an analysis of The Faëry Chasm by William Wordsworth.

No fiction was it of the antique age:
A sky-blue stone, within this sunless cleft,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXaXbbacdecde
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101000011 0111010101 0001010100 1101011111 1001110100 0101010101 011110101111 1001010001 0101111111 0100010001 1111010100 1101100101 1011011111 101110010100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14