This is an analysis of Wild Peaches by Elinor Morton Wylie.

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When the world turns completely upside down…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abbaaXca dedffe X ghhgghhg cbciib X fjjfjjf ifjifX X iegXieei kilkil
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,6,1,8,6,1,7,6,1,8,6,
  • Metre: 1 1011010111 11110100101 0101010101 11011111001 1101011101 1111001110 1111010110 1101110111 0100010101 0101011011 1001010101 1101110101 0100110101 1101110111 1 0101010101 1111010111 0101010001 0101000101 0111010001 1111110101 1101011111 1101010111 10111111010 01001010101 001010101010 1101011101 0101110100 1011111101 1 1101010001 01011100101 0101000101 0111010101 1110110101 1111000101 1111111101 01010101010 110100011 111101111 11111101010 1101100111 1101011100 1 10010010011 1100010111 1101010100 01110101000 1100110111 1111010101 0101010101 1011010101 1111111101 1111010011 10110110101 1011110001 1101011001 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 12
  • Lines: 59

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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