This is an analysis of The Sleeping Beauty by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.

SO has she lain for centuries unguessed,
Her waiting face to waiting heaven turned,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaab cddcXcbbc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,9,
  • Metre: 11111100100 0101010101 1111110111 1111010001 1001110111 1101101101 1101010001 1101011001 1111010100 1001011100 1111001110 1111110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

have, and, her, no