This is an analysis of Distraction by Katharine Tynan.

When swarms of small distractions harry
Devotion like the gnats that fly…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece fgfg hihiXfbfb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 110101010 01010111 111111010 11111101 110111110 11010110 011101010 00110001 101001010 11111101 110010110 01010110 110101110 01111101 1000110010 01010011 101101110 01110011 110111010 11010101 110111110 11111111 111100110 100101011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

so, of, o