This is an analysis of Quarrel by Elinor Morton Wylie.

Let us quarrel for these reasons:
You detest the salt which seasons…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccaaaadd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11101110 10101110 11111111 00110011 1110111 1011101 1110111 1011101 1010111 1010101 11110101 1110101 1111111 1100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

love, something

Anaphora

something