This is an analysis of Overtasked by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
It was a weary hour,
I looked in the lily-bell.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacX cXcXX dXdbX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 0101010 1100101 1100010 0111100101 11011011010 111111 1100101 0101111 1101101011 00101101111 1100101 11101001 0101101 110111110 1101101001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 17
Anaphora
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