This is an analysis of War Profits by Katharine Lee Bates.

THE horns of the moon are tipped
With pearl. Her lover, wooed…

Read full poem

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXXccdXdXdeedacacbbd
  • Stanza lengths: 21,
  • Metre: 0100111 010101 1111100 01010 101 001 101 0100111 010111 01001110 011101 111 111 111 1001101 011111 11110101 011100 111 111 101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 21

Anaphora

but