This is an analysis of A Woman's Shortcomings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
She has laughed as softly as if she sighed,
She has counted six, and over,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcd ededfXfd fXfbXdXd gegeXdXd hihijXjd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1111101011 11101110 0011110111 1101010 110010010111 10111010 1010100111 1111010 1100100101 101001010 0011110111 001110110 110100101 1111000 10101111001 1111010 110100101 11010010 111101101 101010110 110001101 11011010 111101100 1111010 0111110101 110010010 011111111 1111101 011111100101 111001110 01111101110 1101010 0111100111 10101111 0111110101 001010011 0111110101 110011000 0111110101 1101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
she, her, you
Anaphora
she
