This is an analysis of When I Have Borne In Memory by William Wordsworth.
WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed
Great Nations, how ennobling thoughts depart…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaacacaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11110100111 1101010101 1111110110 01010111101 1111011001 1111011111 1000010011 0110011101 1101111111 0101010101 1111010101 1100010111 0101010001 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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