This is an analysis of A Man's Reply by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
That heart were something cold, I think,
That on the light of stars relied…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbbbadedbbXfgfbbfdddcccHdheehXddffhhbHaa Xc dd aa ee hX gg ii gg hh jj ff kk
- Stanza lengths: 42,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Metre: 11010111 11010101 110101100 001101001 01010101 11000111 11110101 01010101 01010101 01100101 01110101 11011101 01010110 11111101 01110101 110001101 010101101 01010111 01001111 01010111 00111101 01011101 01010101 11010101 11001101 11000101 11010101 01110101 01011110 110010101 01101111 01110100 11000101 11010001 1110010101 01011101 01011111 11111111 11110101 11000101 10111011 11000111 110010000 01100011 11110111 11010111 11010101 11111111 11010101 01110011 11110111 01010100 11111101 11010101 11110111 01110111 11110011 11010101 11010111 10010101 11011101 10010100 01011101 01100100 10011001 00110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 78
Repeated words/phrases
know, to, that, and
Anaphora
that, the, and, to, a, of
Epiphora
mine
