This is an analysis of A St. Valentine’s Day Tragedy by Ellis Parker Butler.

Oh! Montmorency Vere de Vere,
To think that one I held so dear…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Aabb ccddaA
  • Stanza lengths: 4,6,
  • Metre: 11000101 01111111 11011001 01001101 01111101 01111101 11011111 10011101 01110111 11000101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

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