This is an analysis of To Remorse by Alice Duer Miller.

MAGIC for fitful souls whose aim is still
Pleasures that forfeit not the mansions blest,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXXcdcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011011101 1011010101 11010100101 1101010101 1110011110 0111110101 1001110001 1111110110 1011011100 10110100001 1111010101 0111001101 1011011101 1010011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

i

Anaphora

i, courage