This is an analysis of The Lost Colors by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
FROWNING, the mountain stronghold stood,
Whose front no mortal could assail;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbab dedede fXXgeX hdgXcd dihifi XdXdad edXdbd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 10010111 11110101 11111100 010001001 111100101 10010101 11011101 110000110 10010101 11010101 10010111 10011101 11010000 1101011 100010111 11010010 110100110 11011100 01001101 11010101 11001101 11110110 11011101 11011101 11011101 01010101 110010101 01011111 01110101 11110111 10011101 010010101 110101101 010101001 01001100 11110101 11010101 11010011 11010111 11110111 11110001 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
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