This is an analysis of The Meeting by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.

SHE flitted by me on the stair--
A moment since I knew not of her.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aBaAabAB
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11011101 010111100 01011111 11011101 11010001 111111110 11011101 010111100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

she, i

Anaphora

a