This is an analysis of Afternoon by Emma Lazarus.
Small, shapeless drifts of cloud
Sail slowly northward in the soft-hued sky,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcaXc defddf ghfghf dfedfe icbXcXXccicci
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 110101 1101000111 0111110101 1011011101 1101101110 001111 1001111 0101110101 0101010111 1111111111 01001110101 010111 111111 0111010101 0101010101 0011010101 0101010001 110101 110101 10010100101 1111010101 10011010101 0101111101 010100 111100 10000010101 1101010111 0011001101 0101010111 010100 101101 1101001101 01010100010 0111010101 0101111101 0101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
of, to, no
Anaphora
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