This is an analysis of Fragment Of A Ballad by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal.

Many a mile over land and sea
Unsummoned my love returned to me;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXX ddee bbff
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 100110111 1000110101 101010111 1100110101 111100111 01111011001 11110111 01011111 110111111 001111111 110110111 1010100111 11011111 110100111 11011111 101100101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and, me, so, to