This is an analysis of The New Ezekiel by Emma Lazarus.
What, can these dead bones live, whose sap is dried
By twenty scorching centuries of wrong?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 1111111101 1101010001 000101011 0101111101 1101010111 0101110101 0101011101 1001110101 1100011101 1001111101 1011110111 1101111101 0100110101 1111010111 1111110101 1111110011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, to
Anaphora
is, of
