This is an analysis of Silver Filigree by Elinor Morton Wylie.

The icicles wreathing
On trees in festoon…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dede bXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 010010 11011 110110 11001 1011010 11101 010110 001001 1010010 001011 1010010 11001 1011010 101100 111110 001101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Anaphora

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