This is an analysis of The Child On The Curbstone by Elinor Morton Wylie.
The headlights raced; the moon, death-faced,
Stared down on that golden river.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb cbab XcacXabcb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
- Metre: 01110111 11111010 111010101 00111110 01011101 0101010 111100101 1001010 10011101 1001110 11110111 1101110 01010111 1101010 101111101 1001010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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