This is an analysis of Assurance by Emma Lazarus.
Last night I slept, and when I woke her kiss
Still floated on my lips. For we had strayed…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcdefefXa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111111101 1101111111 0100111111 1011111111 0111010101 0101110101 1101010111 1011111111 1100110111 10110110111 010100101 1101011101 1111100011100 0111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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