This is an analysis of Galatea by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
A moment's grace, Pygmalion! Let me be
A breath's space longer on this hither hand…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeeXdccedXfcbggdcgd hdbccefgicf XacecXegeffff Xgaaiha
- Stanza lengths: 23,11,13,7,
- Metre: 0101110110 0111010101 0111111101 1000111111 1101110001 1111010101 1101001101 1101011101 1001010101 1001101101 0101010101 0111010101 0110010100 01110100010 01111000101 0101010101 1011011111 1111110000 1101110111 110010100111 0111011111 01011110101 01010101 11 10001010110 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1110110101 1111110101 1101011111 0101011101 1111011101 1111010111 1111011101 1111010101 1111010111 10101010101 10101101101 101001010101 01000010101 1111110101 0111010111 1101000100 1101000100 1111000100 1101010110 1101101100 1111010111 1001011101 1101010111 0101010111 1111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
too, for, his, and, in, or, all, thine, them, to, i, be
Anaphora
a, in, 't, thine
Epiphora
them
