This is an analysis of History by Babette Deutsch.
Once it was packed like a box with the toys of childhood,
Even the largest dolls grown small and familiar,…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcXXdXXdXeffg hegadbbbhiciii
- Stanza lengths: 14,14,
- Metre: 1011101001011 100101111010 1011110 10001000 10111101101 10111110001 100110101110 0100111101 10101 101010101001 110001 1100111101 10011101001 0101110 100 1011 010101 1001110101 11010 00011101110 000100 110 1100 1001010101 0100010100 100100101010 10011010110 0101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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Anadiplosis
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