This is an analysis of Broken Rhythm by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
My oars keep time to half a rhyme,
That slips and slides away from me.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXc XbXb Xcab
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110101 11110101 01111101 01110100 10011101 11011101 11011111 11010111 11110101 01010100 11110101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 14
