This is an analysis of To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe.
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababb cdcdc effef
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 10110001 1110101 110100011 010101001 001101 110011101 110111101 1111111 0010111 1001111 10110101 11111111 01010111 11000101 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
thy
Anaphora
thy
