This is an analysis of The Female Vagrant by William Wordsworth.
By Derwent's side my Father's cottage stood,
(The Woman thus her artless story told)…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaababb cacaadadd ceceeXeaa XfbffdbdX ghghhiXii ahahhahaa fafaajjj ghghhfhffXcacaadadd
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,9,9,9,8,19,
- Metre: 1101110101 0101010101 11011101001 0101011101 1111110011 0101110101 1101111001 11001111101 0101010111001 1101001101 1101110101 1101111101 0111110111 1001011111 1100110101 1111010111 110100100111 110011010101 1101110101 1101011111 1111010101 0101100101 0101111101 1111111110 01010011101 0111110101 010111101101 0111010110 01010011010 01010100101 101101111010 11010101010 0111111111 11011101001 1101110111 01111011110010 0101010101 1101111101 1101011101 1101010101 11010100111 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101 111101011101 1111010101 01010010101 11001001111 0101011111 1101010001 0101010101 1101101101 1111110111 110111010101 11011100010 10011111001 10010101010 1101011101 1111011101 11110011010 101101111111111111010 1001111011101 1101111111 1111111101 101101011001 1111110101 11010100101 11111101110 1101011101 11010111010 1101110101010 0101100101 1101010101 1101011101 1101111101 0111111101 1101010111 1011110111 1111010111 100101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 80
Repeated words/phrases
my, and, i, his, he, loved, we, in
Anaphora
and, the, when, all, we, what
