This is an analysis of In Answer To A Request by Amy Lowell.
You ask me for a sonnet. Ah, my Dear,
Can clocks tick back to yesterday at noon?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddcddXd
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 1111010111 1111010111 1111010111 1111011111 1111111101 1001010101 1101010101 1001010101 11110011111 1111010101 0101010101 0001010101 0100110111 1101010111 1101011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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