This is an analysis of The Amaranth by Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
Thou art not of earth, thou beautiful thing,
With thy changeless form and hue-…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbaa cdXdee fdfdgg ffefhh
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1110111001 01100111 110111101 0101101 11011111 10100100111 111011101 1101101 1011110101 1101101 11101010010 11011001010 111011101 1010101 111011101 10110101 1101011001 1010101101 111110101 0010101 111011110010 111001 110111111 00100110011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
thou, of
Anaphora
and