This is an analysis of Beauty by Elinor Morton Wylie.

Say not of beauty she is good,
Or aught but beautiful,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcdXaaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,9,
  • Metre: 11010100 111100 110101001 011001 10110111 010101 11011111 110101 11010011 110011 01011111 011001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

of, her

Anaphora

or