This is an analysis of George Eliot by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

At evening once, the lowly men who loved
Our Master were found desolate, and grieved…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabXXc bXdaaaed cfecXfc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,7,
  • Metre: 1101010111 1100110011 1111100100 1111010011 0110110001 0111010111 110101010 0100111111 1100111111 0101010011 1001011101 111101 1111 0011011111 1101010111 1101010001 1111110111 1101110101 1100111101 1101110101 1001000111 1111010111 1100011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

we, her

Anaphora

what