This is an analysis of Edmund Clarence Stedman by Henry Van Dyke.

Oh, quick to feel the lightest touch
Of beauty or of truth,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcdc deeebfXf
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 11010101 010101 10010001 010001 01000101 010001 01010101 011101 01011011 1101011 11011101 010101 01010101 110101 11010011 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

the, nor