This is an analysis of The Church-Bell by Elinor Morton Wylie.
As I was lying in my bed
I heard the church-bell ring;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc baba XbXb aXXX XdXdXbdbd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110011 110111 01110111 010101 11010101 101101 01010111 101101 01111011 011111 01110111 110111 01110011 010111 01110111100 010101 01010101 110111 011111110 10011100 010000101 010011 0101101110 011111 1110111 0100101 11010101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Anaphora
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