This is an analysis of Marriage Bells by Emma Lazarus.

Music and silver chimes and sunlit air,
Freighted with the scent of honeyed orange-flower;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011011111 1000101001010 1101010101 11010001010 0101111111 0101011001 0101110101 1011010101 1101110111 1001010111 1001001101 1101010101 0110010001 1001011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14