This is an analysis of They Shall Be Satisfied by Ina D. Coolbrith.
Once, in a dream, I saw the Saviour’s face!
That Face within its aureole of Light,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacddXXbbcXaabb
- Stanza lengths: 17,
- Metre: 1001110101 1101010001 1111010011 1001110011 1101101101 11010101001 1101111011 111111100 0101110100 1101010111 0001011101 1101011101 1101010101 1111011011 1111110101 1101010100 1101110100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
and, my, he
Anaphora
he
