This is an analysis of To Clarissa by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
Clarissa, when you passed me by
With scornful lip and haughty eye,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabccbddeffe
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 01011111 01011101 111001 11010101 11001101 110111 01011001 11110101 111001 11111111 11011101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
