This is an analysis of Two Lovers by George Eliot.
Two lovers by a moss-grown spring:
They leaned soft cheeks together there,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacc XXdeff eeeegg gddbhh bddbee bffXdd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 110101101 11110101 10011101 11010101 1101 1111 11000101 01110100 01111101 11010111 1111 1101 110100101 11010101 11110111 11011111 11010 11010 110101010 01110111 11111101 11010101 1101 1101 01110101 01110111 11011101 11111101 1101 1101 01110101 11010101 11111111 11111110100 1100 1110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Anaphora
o, the, two