This is an analysis of To A Departed Spirit by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.

From the bright stars, or from the viewless air,
Or from some world unreached by human thought,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababC dedeC fefec fgfXfgc hihic ababCXcfcfC
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,7,5,11,
  • Metre: 0011100101 10111001101 1011001101 1011000101 101101 11110010111 1111111111 1101010101 01011101010 101101 1111110111 01010011001 1110100101 1011011101 111101 1101110111 1101000101 1011101101 11 1 1010101 111101 0011000101 00110011111 1011000101 1001000101 101101 1001001101 11111100101 11110101001 1011010101 101101 0101010111 1011110111 1011011101 1111110111 101101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 37

Repeated words/phrases

from, not, in, our, and

Anaphora

have, in, by