This is an analysis of Inscribed by James Whitcomb Riley.

To the Elect of Love,--or side-by-side
In raptest ecstasy, or sundered wide…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cdXdcceeXdcdccccc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,17,
  • Metre: 0001011111 01010011001 1111110011 0101110101 10110101 110001001 01110111 01011101 11110111 11111111 011101110 011101010 11100101 11001101 11110111 10010101 11110111 10011101 0100111001 11010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

or, my, so

Anaphora

of