This is an analysis of After A Quarrel by Alice Duer Miller.

WE have quarreled; ugly things have been said,
Bitter things, in a tone controlled, well-bred,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdcdeeffbbggbbee
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 1110101101 1010010111 1001111101 01001010101 11101001010110 11110010101 00111010110110 11011010101 110110010101 110011010101 01001010111 110101101111 10111101101 1101011001001 10110010111 11111110101 00011101111 10101101111 111011111011 11011010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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