This is an analysis of From "Vashti" by Lascelles Abercrombie.

WHAT thing shall be held up to woman's beauty?
Where are the bounds of it? Yea, what is all…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXaXcdedfXeabXXgfffcgcXbfdd
  • Stanza lengths: 29,
  • Metre: 11101101010 1101001101 01111010001 01100010001 01010101010 0111110101 1111111101 0101111101 11010010011 1111011101 1100110101 011100101111 1101010001 11110010110 0100111011 100101000010 1011010011 1100111100 1010011111 01010100101 1011011001 0100010101 0111010101 1001011101 10110101010 01001110101 1111110011 1111010111 1101000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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