This is an analysis of Eternal Rest by Enid Derham.
When the impatient spirit leaves behind
The clogging hours and makes no dear delay…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdacda
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001010101 01010111101 0101010111 0101111111 0110001001 0101010101 1111110101 01010110101 11011101001 1111111101 1110000111 1111011111 11010111101 01110100001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
to, not
Anadiplosis
rest