This is an analysis of Congratulation by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
You told the story of your love;
I heard as one who did not hear;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe egXg afbf hgig fjgj gkXk gXgl mlal dnhn dlcl kgmg Xegig
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 11010011 11111011 010100101 10110001 01010111 01010111 01011101 01010001 111011101 11110111 10110100 11011101 01001101 11110101 10110101 01010111 01010101 01010101 11010111 01110111 111111101 01111101 01110101 10101011 11010111 01000111 110101110 00011111 11010111 11011100 11010111 11010100 11111101 11111110 11100101 01111101 11110101 01010101 11110011 11111101 11111101 11000101 11010111 10010100 10001111 10011101 01010101 01010101 00110101 01110111 11010101 111111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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