This is an analysis of Matins by Emma Lazarus.
Gray earth, gray mist, gray sky:
Through vapors hurrying by,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb dddbeeeb eeedbbbd ccXdcccd fffgcccg aaXhiiih bbbajjja dddXkkke lliaggga
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 111111 1101001 101111 101101 111101 110101 0110101 010011 011101 001111 011101 001101 110111 110101 110101 011101 100111 001101 101111 0100111 011101 11111 110111 101101 0101001 111101 0101100 110111 010101 111111 110101 1101011 010101 011101 100101 011101 1010001 110101 101101 100101 011111 110111 110100 101111 010101 011101 110101 111101 010111 110111 010111 101101 010111 101101 101101 100111 110111 110100 011111 100111 011111 110101 110101 010111 111110 0010100 010101 0101101 011101 010001 101101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
gray, and, her
Anaphora
the, of, and, strange
