This is an analysis of Speaking Of Operations by Ellis Parker Butler.

I know something wonderful—wonderful;
So strange it will quite startle you;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Abab AcXc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1110100100 11001101 1110110100 01011001 1110100100 11001010 111010110 11100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

it

Anaphora

so, you