This is an analysis of Age And Death by Emma Lazarus.

Come closer, kind, white, long-familiar friend,
Embrace me, fold me to thy broad, soft breast.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababaacddc
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1101110101 0111101111 1111111111 1101010011 1101111011 1101111101 1101011101 1101011011 1110111101 1101111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

thy

Anaphora

so, thy