This is an analysis of Eternal Rest by Enid Derham.

When the impatient spirit leaves behind
The clogging hours and makes no dear delay…

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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