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

THERE'S not a leaf upon the tree
To show the sap is leaping,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xababbba XcXcdddc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 11010101 0101010 11011111 0101010 11010001 01010101 01010101 0100010 01010101 1101010 01110101 0111010 11110011 11010101 01010111 11001110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

not, something

Anaphora

a