This is an analysis of Marjorie’s Wooing by Emma Lazarus.
THE corn was yellow upon the cliffs,
The fluttering grass was green to see,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcX bXde fXdX XXXX afdX BecX XdXX BXdX BXdX BdXX deXX ggXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 011100101 010011101 010110101 1010110100 101001111 100101111 0101100110011 1101001101 101111011 111111111 01011001001 101111011 101001111 11110001001 101000111 1111101111 111110101 1111100111 1111111110 10101011101 101000111 110100101 110111101 111101011 101110111 101100101 111100111 11101001110 101000111 111101111 111111001 11111111011 101000111 1111111111 1011001011 1111100111 101000111 1111011011 1001101011 10010011001 10010001011 1111111001 1011111011 1111111111 10101111 000110101 101001101011 11100101110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, you, ', i, know, your, of
Anaphora
the, i, lord, and
Epiphora
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