This is an analysis of Chopin by Emma Lazarus.

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A dream of interlinking hands, of feet…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdedefefXgg X gffgheehffijji X fefejijiababee X XeXeihihaeeXii
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,
  • Metre: 1 0101000101 10001001101 00010111001 1101000101 10110110001 01011101001 01011101001 0110011101 1001010101 0101001011 1101010101 0110010111 1111010101 0101100011 1 1101010101 0101000101 0111110111 1010100101 0101100101 0111010101 1111010101 0101011101 01010010101 0101000101 01001011111 00101010101 1001000101 1111111101 1 0111011111 1011000101 1001010101 10111000100 0111111101 1101011111 01110010111 1101111101 00110101011 0111111101 11100110101 1001111101 0111010111 100101011100 1 1101010101 0111010111 1100101001010 1111010111 0101010001 0101010111 1101110111 01110100101 1111010110 1101010101 1111011101 010110100100 1111101001 01011111011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 63

Repeated words/phrases

of, for, him, who, first

Anaphora

of, the