This is an analysis of Escaped by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

Just before you came,
There stole into the air…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aba cbc ada ede bfb Xbfb
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,4,
  • Metre: 10111 110001 010101 10101 11111 111111 0101 110101 111101 111111 110011 110101 011101 001101 110001 11101 110101 110111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

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Anadiplosis

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