This is an analysis of Her Jury by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

A lily rooted in a sacred soil,
Arrayed with those who neither spin nor toil;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbX ccddXX cceefffcfX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,10,
  • Metre: 0101000101 0101110111 1001010101 0100010101 1110111101 1011011101 1101010111 1101010101 1100010101 0101110011 10110101010 10101100110 0111111101 1001010101 1111110001 010011111 0101110111 0011010101 0101110100 010101011 1
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24