This is an analysis of To An Old Lady In A Train by Alice Duer Miller.

HER hair was beautifully white
Beneath her bonnet, black as night,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeff bbggffbXgg
  • Stanza lengths: 14,10,
  • Metre: 0111001 01010111 11001101 11010101 11111111 11001111 11111101 11010001 10110101 11010101 11010101 11110101 0101101 01000111 11110001 11110101 01011011 11010101 11010111 11010101 11010101 01100111 11100001 110101001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

her, she