This is an analysis of Eurydice: Listening: A Picture By Burne Jones by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

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As sentient as a wedding-bell,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bXcbcdXc X ddeeffggaX X bbhgbcbb X bXbbXhbab
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,1,10,1,8,1,9,
  • Metre: 1 11010101 01011100 11010101 110010101 10110101 01110111 110010111 11110111 1 10010111 11010101 11110101 110101001 11010001 01010001 01000101 01111100 0110000 1101100 1 1100111001 10011111 101100101 10011111 10010101 00011111 10011111 111001 1 1100111001 110101101 1111101101 101101 1101011111 1101111111 111111001 1111101001 111001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 42

Repeated words/phrases

to, in, you

Anaphora

oh, back