This is an analysis of Idyl by Emma Lazarus.
The swallows made twitter incessant,
The thrushes were wild with their mirth.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcded eaeaXcec faeaeefe gdXdgaXa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 010110010 01001011 011010110 101001001 1011010011 101111011 1011011110 001011001 1111011110 101001101 1010110011 101001001 1010010011 111011011 1110010011 11001001 1011110110 011001001 1010010010 01001001 011011110 111001111 1110010010 011101001 1111010010 101111001 1011011010 001011001 1011010010 101001101 1011010110 01001001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, he
Anaphora
the, and
