This is an analysis of Venetian Interior by Elinor Morton Wylie.

Allegra, rising from her canopied dreams,
Slides both white feet across the slanted beams…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 01010001001 1111010101 1101110001 1100110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4