This is an analysis of Batalha by Alice Duer Miller.

IN this still cloister where the roses grow
Waist-high between the arches and the well,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcX dXdXeaea
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 0011010101 1101010101 1111010001 1101111101 11110111010 1001000110 01010001010 110100 10010101010 1001110111 111101111110 10101010100 10111101010 1001111101 11111110010 010001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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