This is an analysis of Sphinx by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
O glad girls' faces, hushed and fair! how shall I sing for ye?
For the grave picture of a sphinx is all that I can see.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc cc Xaa
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,3,
- Metre: 11110111111111 10110001011111 10010001110101 00100111010001 10110101001101 10110111110101 101101010010101 10110111110101 111101001101111 10110001011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 14
