This is an analysis of An Autumn Violet by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

I saw a miracle to-day!
Where the September sunshine lay…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeddaaff gghhaadd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 11010001 10010111 100101010 010101010 11110101 010010101 01011101 00110100 11010001 010011110 01110111 10010101 11110101 10010101 10011101 00010011 110100111 11110101 110101010 11101010 11111111 00110100 01011011 11110100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

to, so

Anaphora

so, it