This is an analysis of The Indian Girl: A Picture By Walter Shirlaw by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

She standeth silent as a thought
Too sacred to be uttered; all…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaXbX aaXcXbabc
  • Stanza lengths: 7,9,
  • Metre: 11010101 11000101 010101010 11011101 01010101 11010101 010101001 11111101 11110101 11011101 01100100 11110111 11101100 11111111 11110101 010010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

she, i