This is an analysis of How Long? by Emma Lazarus.
How long, and yet how long,
Our leaders will we hail from over seas,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbab XccXc aaaaa dccdc eeeee bffbf adXadXbccbc
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Metre: 111111 1100110101 1011010100 111101 0101010100 1101110 1001010001 1110110111 110101 1101101101 110111 0011100101 1001010001 111111 01001011101 011111 0101010001 0011011101 110101 10010001001 1101001 01110101001 1101110101 100101 0101000100 1101001 11010101001 01001000111 010101 01001011101 010101 0011000101 0101101100 001111 0111010101 010111 0101010101 1111011101 01001101 1110010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, with, of
Anaphora
with, these, the
