This is an analysis of The Bayadere by Alan Seeger.
Flaked, drifting clouds hide not the full moon's rays
More than her beautiful bright limbs were hid…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacacc bddXbeeb bffbgccg
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 10101110111 1101001101 1011111101 10010101001 1111010001 1101110011 1101010101 1101010101 10111011111 10010001011 1011010101 1100010110 1111111111 110100110001 111001001 111001011 1111010101 1100001101 0101010001 0101010001 10110101010 101010110001 0101011101 01000101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
and, she
Anaphora
and
