This is an analysis of The Missing Star by Augusta Davies Webster.
WHY did the star leave the sky,
The far, pure sky?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcacb bbddbbbd eeffaeXfa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,9,
- Metre: 1001101 0111 111111011 111100111 111111 11101 100111111 00101 1011111 1111 111101101 110100101 110111 11111 110100101 00101 1101011 1111 1001101001 101100100 111111 10101 1101 10111 101000
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
she
Anaphora
ah
Epiphora
sky, star, light