This is an analysis of Happiness by Edith Wharton.
THIS perfect love can find no words to say.
What words are left, still sacred for our use,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccX deXede
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0011111101 1111110111 1111001101 1101010111 1101011101 1101000111 0100111101 0101010101 1111010101 0101010101 0101010110 1101010111 0101010101 0101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
Anaphora
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