This is an analysis of Earth And The Wedded Woman by George Meredith.
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The shepherd, with his eye on hazy South,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a XaXabcbXBB X cdcdebebBB X fafadgdgBB X hdhdeieiBb a ececcjcjBb a kkkXikikBb
- Stanza lengths: 1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,
- Metre: 1 0100011101 1101010101 1100111101 1101110101 0100010101 1110111111 111111 01001000 1101010001 1101001111 1 1101011101 1111000101 1110110001 0110011101 1101011101 0101011111 010001 110101 1101010001 1101001111 1 1111111001 1101011011 0101110111 1111110111 11110111010 0111110101 0100010 010001 1101010001 1101001111 1 11011110110 0100110101 01110101010 0111010101 0111011101 0111011101 110101 110111 1101010001 110100011 1 1101110111 110100111001 11001010111 11001010111 0011010101 0101111101 100111 001101 1101010001 110100011 1 1111011111 1111111101 01001010111 11010101110 1111110101 0100110001 101111 011101 1101010001 1100111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 66
Repeated words/phrases
to, they, of, or, her
Anaphora
the
Anadiplosis
they
