This is an analysis of Song by Emma Lazarus.

Venus.
Frosty lies the winter-landscape,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXa abcb bcaX ddXd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10 10101011 0011101 10101010 1011111 10100010 1110111 11101010 1010101 10111110 100001001 10101010 0011100 10101110 11111010 10101101 10001010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 17