This is an analysis of Patience by Amy Lowell.

Be patient with you?
When the stooping sky…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbccbdD AeffedD AcddcdDXAdccddd
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,15,
  • Metre: 01001 10101 110101 1100111101 11010101 0111010111 1101 01001 10111 101101 0101100101 01011101 0111011101 1101 01001 11101 110101 0111110111 10110101 01010100111 1101 01001 11111 1100010 11010101110 10110101 1111111100 11011101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

my

Anaphora

my

Anadiplosis

you