This is an analysis of The South by Emma Lazarus.
Night, and beneath star-blazoned summer skies
Behold the Spirit of the musky South,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc adadaa bebeaa fafaaa ghghff aaaXii jjjjff efefbb ajajffXfafacc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 11011100101 0101000101 0100110101 01001101101 101101 0100011001 01110011111 1111010101 1100110101 10010100101 010101 1101010111 1100100101 10101001101 1101001111 1101100101 1100011 0111011101 1111111101 01110010101 0101110001 1101011101 101101 0110110101 0001010001 0101010101 1111010111 1111110101 101101 1101110001 0101010111 01100101001 1101100111 11011101000 010101 10011010111 10010100101 1001111101 1111111111 1011010101 1101111 101100111 0111010011 0111011101 1101010001 0101010101 110011 01101000101 1111011111 11110101001 1001010101 0001010101 011101 11011011111 1101011101 1001010101 1100010001 11110011111 0101001 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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