This is an analysis of The Blue Scarf by Amy Lowell.

Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded
In smooth, running patterns, a soft stuff, with dark knotted fringes,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXcXXaXXXcXXXbXXacXc
  • Stanza lengths: 23,
  • Metre: 100101101010010100 011010011011010 011 100101101110110010 101010110010010111 0101010111111011 111 1100110101111 011010 0111100101010011010 111110010010110110 010111011110010110 1110111100110100010 1001111001111001 101101101000010011010 110110010101001 0110 0101110101111010010 1110110101110 011010 110110011010010111 1111110101011001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

with, and, of, it, her

Anaphora

her