This is an analysis of Poor Earth by Elinor Morton Wylie.
It is not heaven: bitter seed
Leavens its entrails with despair…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 00110101 10010001 00011101 1010101 01110101 01110001 01010001 1110111 01001111 1110101 1010101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Anaphora
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