This is an analysis of Two Centuries by Katharine Lee Bates.
Two centuries' winter storms have lashed the changing sands of Falmouth's shore,
Deep-voiced, the winds, swift winged, wild, have echoed there the ocean's roar.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXdd cXee ffgg
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,
- Metre: 11001011101010101 110111111010101 11011101110100101 0101110111110101 111111111111001110 10011101111101100 11010111010110101 01001110110110001 01011110110111111 1101010101110010 010100111100010111 10110110111111101 10110111101011101 100110101011100101 1001101111011011111 101011010011111100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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