This is an analysis of To Marie Louise (Shew) by Edgar Allan Poe.

Of all who hail thy presence as the morning-
Of all to whom thine absence is the night-…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXbaXbXbXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 01111101010 0101110001 01010001110 01010111011 1011111011 10101001101 0101000100 01111010001 101011100010 1111011101 1011011001 0010010011 0111111101 10010101010 01001100010 11111111011 1111110101 01000100110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

of, all, in, for

Anaphora

of, the, at