This is an analysis of O Evening Star by Fawzi Maalouf.

O evening star, have pity for my breast is torn with grief;'
Hold back the flood! it gushes forth in tears from my eyes.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXcXccXcabadd
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 11011101110101 1101010101011 010101011111011011 111011011001011010010 101011011111011110 11111011100101011 11100101111011 11111110111111 111111101101101 1111101111111000100 1101111011110111 110111011111100011001 1110011111110101 1111110011010101 1111010101110101 11110011111011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

my, me, i, not, of, have, in, has

Anaphora

i