This is an analysis of Come, Pretty School-Girl! by Henry Clay Work.

On this rolling planet ever have you seen
A home so like a palace waiting for its queen? --…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbb ccbbb ddbbB eebbB
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 10101010111 011101010101 010111 110101 101011011011 1101111101 1100011011011 1101 1111 001011011011 11101010101 110101011101 110101 010111 0010110110001 10101010111 110111001101 110101 110111 0010110110001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

so

Anaphora

a, your, come