This is an analysis of In Excelsis by Amy Lowell.
You -- you --
Your shadow is sunlight on a plate of silver;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcX de Xfgcfhddec ccafchXXci hcgfadXbdffdaaifd
- Stanza lengths: 4,2,10,10,17,
- Metre: 11 111011101010 1110101010 11100101010101 01001100110100100101 0001001010101 10010101110010 11011110111 111101011 11010111111001110 1111 1101001111 11010 10111110110 1110111101011 1010101010 1110101 111111011 110101 1101010110 110101 1111 111011001 101010100 11101011 01010011 11011100111 111101010110 11010001011111110101 100100110011010 111110010011011 1001 1111111001010110 11101001010 010010 10010101 111110 11111 111 11 1111110100 11010000101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
of, your, you, to, my, i
Anaphora
your, i, like, you, how, do
Epiphora
open, clouds, you
