This is an analysis of Long Island Sound by Emma Lazarus.

I see it as it looked one afternoon
In August,-by a fresh soft breeze o'erblown.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaaabbacdcdaa
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101011101 01010111100 0100010101 0111110101 0101001101 0101010101 0101000111 01001010101 0011010111 1000110101 01011101001 1101100011 1010011101 1111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the