This is an analysis of Seeking by Dora Sigerson Shorter.

There I cannot find thee, O my love!
In the city's clamour,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AXXbbAAccddAAeeXXAAddffa
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 111011111 001010 0010010 10101010 10100010 111011111 111011111 111010 1101110 1101010 1111010 111011111 111011111 1101010 100101010 1011000 1010001 111011111 111011111 1001110 1101110 10111001 1110101 111011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

my, i

Anaphora

in, there, where

Epiphora

love