This is an analysis of Now Let No Charitable Hope by Elinor Morton Wylie.

Now let no charitable hope
Confuse my mind with images…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11110001 01110100 01010101 11110101 111010101 111010101 11110001 11010011 01010101 00110101 11110011 11110111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

of, i

Anaphora

i