This is an analysis of The Terrible Test by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
Separate, upon the folded page
Of myth or marvel, sad or glad,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc adaX Xbbe XecX abXb Xdaba
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 101010101 01110111 01110101 11011101 11011111 01001111 01000111 01000100 10010001 10010001 11010101 1110101 11111111 11010110 01111111 11000100 11010000 01011100 110011111 01110101 01011111 11110101 01111111 01010101 11101110 11111111 01011101 11010001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, of
Anaphora
the, man
