This is an analysis of The Lost Path by Elinor Morton Wylie.
The garden's full of scented wallflowers,
And, save that these stir faintly, nothing stirs;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabbccddcc eeddffaag gaXhhbbffgg aXeebb
- Stanza lengths: 10,9,11,6,
- Metre: 0101010100 1111110101 1001010101 1111111001 11010010111 0101010101 1101010111 10101111111 0100011001 1111110001 1101010101 1101010101 0111110101 01111010101 1011101111 1011010101 1111110011 1011010111 0111011001 1101010101 0101110101 1101010010 0111010101 1111100101 00101010101 1011010001 01100010111 1111011101 1101010011 0101111101 10110010101 0101010100 1111010101 01010100101 101100101111 0111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, room
Anaphora
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