This is an analysis of Whose Shall The Welcome Be? by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

The wave goes down, the wind goes down,
The gray tide glitters on the sea,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Abbccbb abdaadb Abeffeb
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
  • Metre: 01110111 01110101 01110001 10010100 00111100 11110111 110100 01110111 01011101 10011101 01000111 10111101 01010111 1001001 01110111 11111001 11010111 11111101 11011111 11110101 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the