This is an analysis of The Party by Alice Duer Miller.
THE house is bright with lights and lights,
Like a palace in the Arabian Nights,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXccbbbbbbddaabbcceeXacc
- Stanza lengths: 26,
- Metre: 01010111 10100001001 101011010 010111010 110100111 10011111 101001110 101011010 1011101010 1101001110 010100101 1010111111 10011101 01101101 110110111 10010111 101001010 1111100010 11010101 1100100111 1001000111 111110111 100111010 101101010 110111101 111100101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
in, lights, and, of, laughs
Anaphora
and, laughs
