This is an analysis of The Wood Nymph by Ellis Parker Butler.

A glint of her hair or a flash of her shoulder —
That is the most I can boast to have seen,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 010011010010 1001111011 11011011010 1011001011 11111010011 1101101001 11110010111 1011001101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

of, her, i

Anaphora

could