This is an analysis of Winter Sleep by Elinor Morton Wylie.
When against earth a wooden heel
Clicks as loud as stone on steel,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd bXeeXXccff ggbbhhdd ccii
- Stanza lengths: 8,10,8,4,
- Metre: 10110101 1111111 111100101 11111101 10110111 11101001 1010101111 1100100101 10111001 10100100 11111001 100100101 10101111 0010010101 110111001 0010111111 010011100 1100100101 11010111 010100101 10101111 0100101111 0101001110 101011010 0101100111 1011011001 11011101 1010111001 011110111 1111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
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