This is an analysis of Smoke by George MacDonald.
Lord, I have laid my heart upon thy altar
But cannot get the wood to burn;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcdXadad
- Stanza lengths: 4,9,
- Metre: 11111101110 11010101 01011001010 100101 111110111010 01111101 111100110010 010101 11111101010 10111101 11111110110 111101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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