This is an analysis of Atavism by Elinor Morton Wylie.

I was always afraid of Somes's Pond:
Not the little pond, by which the willow stands,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacbbc daadee
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111010101 10101110111 1101111011 0111010101 1101110101 10111010111 10101011111 1111110111 11110100110 0110110101 1101011101 01010101010 0101110101 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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