This is an analysis of To Marguerite by Ellis Parker Butler.
So great my debt to thee, I know my life
Is all too short to pay the least I owe,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 1111011111 0111010111 1111010111 1110010111 1111010101 1111110011 1111010100 0101010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, me
Anaphora
and
