This is an analysis of Love Is Home by George MacDonald.

Love is the part, and love is the whole;
Love is the robe, and love is the pall;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabb cdcddd bebeff ghghdd iiiijj
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 100111001 100111001 10011111 100110101 11111111 11111111 100111001 10011101 100110101 100101011 11111101 1010111101 100111001 10011111 101100101 101100101 11111111 111111101 11111110 11111110 11111110 011101010 1011110110 1111111110 1001011110 101110010 101111010 1111110110 11111111 110111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

love, and, i, thee, that, my, oh, wind

Anaphora

love, i, home

Epiphora

it