This is an analysis of The Pet-Lamb by William Wordsworth.
A PASTORAL
THE dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bXXc ddaa bbdd eeff gghh ccff iijj ddee ffdd kkXd ddll llcc ffee eeff ffdX iidX hhdX
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0100 011101010101 110101110101 1101001011110 0111010010101 111101011101 110101110001 0111010010101 101101110101 011001110101 10101111010101 110101110101 111101010011 11010010010101 110001100101 100101010101 111101011011 1010111100101 1100011010001 010001110101 111001110111 111111111111 001101111111 110101111110 110111111101 1001111010011 111111110011 0101011101111 111111010011 10101011111101 010101010111 111101011111 011111110111 110111110101 1110111010101 1010101111111 1110011110111 1110011010111 01111110111 010111011011 010101110110 1111011111001 110001111101 110011010101 111101110011 1101001111111 11110111010001 111110110101 111011111011 101011110100 1111011010101 111110100111 110111110111 100101111111 110101110111 010111111111 111101110111 11111010001 111111110011 111101111111 1111011010110 110101110101 010110110101 1011101010111 111001011100110 011101010101 1111110010101 11101011110101 111101010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 18
- Lines: 69
Repeated words/phrases
her, thee, not, be, thy, and, that, i, half
Anaphora
a
