This is an analysis of Absent! by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
You do not lift your eyes to watch
Us pass the conscious door;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabaXccc ccdcbccc befeafgf hhihXjaj hiXidkdk clcllgXg
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11111101 110101 11011001 111101 11011101 011111 11011111 0111001 11000111 110111 11010101 110111 11011111 110101 11100101 1001101 01011011 010101 11110101 110111 11101101 010101 11110101 011111 11011101 110101 01010001 010111 11011100 111100 11001101 111100 11111101 010001 11010101 010001 01110101 101111 10010101 010101 11011101 01001010 11011101 0001010 10011110 111110 10111101 001001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
to, as, and, our, your
Anaphora
no, our, the