This is an analysis of Orpheus by Edith Wharton.
Love will make men dare to die for their beloved. . . Of this
Alcestis is a monument . . . for she was willing to lay down her…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcde f ddggeeddXeff hghgddaaffcc hhiiccjjcckk ggjjlljj eehhmm ddaahhgggghhccddiill eeggnn jjXcggddbjaa ffhhoojjccjjddddmmhhjjll Xhggllddcchhjj llmmXeehhcc
- Stanza lengths: 5,1,12,12,12,8,6,20,6,12,24,14,11,
- Metre: 10111011101000 10000100111100110 1101011100001001 1110001000010011 10001010111001 1000100 10001010001 1001001101 1011000101 1001110110 10111101001 110101100101 1100010001 0111010101 0100011100 10011101001 11010011101 11000010001 11010101001 1011011001 11010010111 1101010101 1101110101 1111110101 1011011001 1111000101 1101000101 1101100111 1101010001 1101010101 0101000111 1101110111 1111110111 1100000111 1101010101 0101010101 0101110001 1101111101 0111011111 1100111001 1001110101 1101111101 1111010101 1111110111 1110011001 1011010101 0101111111 1101011001 0110111101 111111011 01101111101 01010010111 1101111101 1101010101 1001010111 0111010101 1110010111 1101010001 1101000101 1101101101 1001011101 1111111111 1111011111 1111100111 1111010101 1001010101 0101110111 0101010011 1101010011 10110111001 1111010111 11001011101 1101010101 1111110011 1101110111 1001111111 1111010111 1011111101 1111111101 1111110011 10101001111 1100101101 0111111101 1111111111 0101001000 1111110101 1111011101 1011011101 1111110101 0011110101 10110111010 1011111011 1011011111 1100111101 10011010111 1001010101 1111111111 1011010111 1100110101 0100110101 01010110101 1001010111 11000010101 1101011001 1111001111 1011010001 1011110101 1110010101 1011111111 1101011111 1011010101 1011010001 11010101001 01010011001 1101110101 1011010001 1111100101 1101111111 1101110010 1101010111 0111011111 1011000101 11010101001 0100110101 101101101 0101110101 0101010101 1101010101 0111001101 1111010111 1101110101 1101010011 1101111101 1111111011 1111111101 11001100101 1001011101 100100100001 11110100101 1101010101 1011010111 1001011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 142
Repeated words/phrases
to, for, her, of, and, give, my, she
Anaphora
the, he