This is an analysis of Italian Girl's Hymn To The Virgin by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.

In the deep hour of dreams,
Through the dark woods, and past the moaning sea,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fgfg hdhd bebe ijij Xeigig jkjk lmlmXbdbd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,9,
  • Metre: 0011001 1011110101 110111 1001011101 101111 11010111101 110101 01010011001 111111 0111011101 1100101 0101010111 101111 0011001101 111111 11001010101 1001001 10101100101 111111 01001100111 110111 111100100101 101101 111000011101 111111 1111010111 111101 0100110100 1110 1 01 11011101001 110001 11110100011 110001 0100110101 110111 0101001101 010101 1101001111 1101001 1101111111 110111 01011101001 100101 1101110111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 11
  • Lines: 46

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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