This is an analysis of The New Woman by Arthur Henry Adams.

THE stone that all the sullen centuries,
With sluggish hands and massive fingers rude,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXaacXc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0111010100 0101110101 010100101 1101111101 1110010001 0100011101 0100010101 1001111001 1111111111 1001000111 0101000101 1101000101 11010111100 0101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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