This is an analysis of The Usurer by Jean Blewett.

FATE says, and flaunts her stores of gold,
'I'll loan you happiness untold.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXaabbccXccX ddeeeebbddff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,12,
  • Metre: 11110101 11110001 100101001 001100100 01011110 01010101 01110101 01110101 01010111 01011111 0101111 01000111 01001101 1101010 11111110 01010111 010101001 11011101 11110111 11110011 11011101 01010101 11010101 01110101 11011101 11010100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the, in, take