This is an analysis of Morning by Emma Lazarus.

GRAY-VESTED Dawn, with flameless, tranquil eye,
Cool hands, and dewy lips, is in the sky,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaX bbb ccc ddd Xcc eee fff ggX
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Metre: 11010100101 1111010001 0101010100 0111101001 1101010101 0101010101 0101011101 11001110011 10011010111 1100011101 01001100101 0101010111 0111010101 11010010111 0111010111 11001010101 0101110101 1111110001 0111011111 1101110101 1101010101 1101110101 01010010101 111101100111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

with, she, her, and, to, from

Anaphora

the, she