This is an analysis of The Difference by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

The breakers warned them from the sea,
The late light lured them up the shore;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdc cbaXcX aebedX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 01010001 01110101 01000101 11111001 01110100 11010101 11111111 11110101 11110110 01111000 01010101 10011111 11011111 11110101 110101111 11010100 10110100 110111010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

you

Anaphora

the