This is an analysis of Les Lauriers Sont Coupée by Elinor Morton Wylie.
Ah, love, within the shadow of the wood
The laurels are cut down; some other brows…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cbXcbX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1101011001 0101111101 1101011101 11010100010 1111010111 1001010101 0101001101 1101010111 1111011111 10110111110 1111110100 1001010001 1001010111 1001010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
sweeter
