This is an analysis of A Dead Lily by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
O placid, fainted lily!
You neither toiled nor spun;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb acXc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 1101010 110111 11011111110 111101 1100010 111111 11110011110 111110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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