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

Flushed with fancies, I bethought me,
'Into music I will set them,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abccbdX aeXXeda afggfXa
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
  • Metre: 10101101 10101010 10100010 00101010 10101010 01111110100 0111101010101 111110101 101001010 10101010 10101010 11111110 01111010100 11011100110101 11111011 11111010 10101010 11101010 11111010 10111011100 1010111010100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

it, me

Anaphora

it, was, proud, not