This is an analysis of The Waiwode.From The Russian by Lady Jane Wilde.

Secretly by night returning,
Jealous fears within him burning,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddbeebbfbggbaabaaXaabhhbiifhXfjjbiib aakXXkiiXaafcclddlddbddb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,36,24,
  • Metre: 10011010 10101110 010101101 101001010 10101010 1110111 00111010 11101010 1010101 10101010 100110010 1111101 110101010 110111100 1011111 111101010 111101010 111011101 100101110 11101010 1010101 100001010 00101010 1100110 10101010 10111110 1111111 11101010 10111010 1010011 11111111 10101111 1100111 11111110 10101010 1110101 1111111 11010111 1011101 11111011 00111111 1110101 11101110 11101110 1110111 11101110 10011100 1011101 11111011 10111111 1110110 10101110 11111110 1010111 1011010 11101010 1110101 110101110 111101010 1010111 010111010 11101010 1010101 110111010 0100111010 1110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 66

Repeated words/phrases

s, and

Anaphora

all

Epiphora

thee, me