This is an analysis of Bronze Trumpets And Sea Water - On Turning Latin Into English by Elinor Morton Wylie.
Alembics turn to stranger things
Strange things, but never while we live…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 10010101 11110111 11010111 01010001 010011 01010010 01010101 11010001 110010101 111100101 10010111 110010100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
