This is an analysis of Blood Feud by Elinor Morton Wylie.
Once, when my husband was a child, there came
To his father's table, one who called him kin,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXccX dedeff
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1111010111 00101011111 010010010101 0111111101 00110010101 1011001111 100001010101 111101110100 1101010001 0111011101 0101010101 010011101001 1111110101 0101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
his, and
