This is an analysis of Lines: by Henry Timrod.

I saw, or dreamed I saw, her sitting lone,
Her neck bent like a swan's, her brown eyes thrown…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgg
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111110101 0111010111 1111001111 101010111 1001010111 0100111111 10110100001 1111010101 1111011011 1100010101 0111011101 11011100101 1111010101 11110101111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

i, her

Anaphora

and