This is an analysis of To R.W.E. by Emma Lazarus.
As when a father dies, his children draw
About the empty hearth, their loss to cheat…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010101 0101011101 01011101 0101010101 0101000101 1101111101 1111011111 1011010011 1111011101 01111101001 101010111 11110111101 1111000101 0101011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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