This is an analysis of The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
Pearl-white, opaque and fixèd fast,
Flashing between the hands unclasped,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXabbb ccaXa XaaaXc
- Stanza lengths: 7,5,6,
- Metre: 1101111 100101100 10010101 01011011 11011101 110010101 11111111 00110101 11010101 11110101 110111010 11011101 11010100 11010101 01110101 1101011 010100111 10100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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