This is an analysis of Slighted by Joseph Skipsey.
AH me! my heart is like to break,
The envied rose upon my cheek,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaab cXcb dDdX eeeb aXab fffb ddDb gggb hhhb hhhX iiib
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110101 01010111 01110111 110101 01011111 11011110 11000101 111111 11110111 11110101 11110111 110111 11011111 11011101 11011111 011111 01010101 01010111 11110101 111110 01011111 11111101 11111101 110101 11111111 11110111 11110101 111100 11110111 01110111 11111111 111101 11110101 11011101 11111101 1101101 01011111 01010101 01111111 110100 11010101 11011111 11111111 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
i, he, those, and, dear
Anaphora
the, he, i, would, to