This is an analysis of The Choice by Emma Lazarus.
I saw in dream the spirits unbegot,
Veiled, floating phantoms, lost in twilight space;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaabcddceffebgXgbhffh
- Stanza lengths: 22,
- Metre: 1101010100 1101010111 11010111101 101101 1111 11110101010 11000100101 1001011111 11111111010 0101100101 1111010111 1111111111 1100010101 1011111111 1110010011 1111010 111 0011010101 1011111111 01110101001 0101110101 010101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
and, thy
Anaphora
the
