This is an analysis of A Blouse Machinist by Lesbia Harford.

Miss Murphy has blue eyes and blue-black hair,
Her machine's opposite mine…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaabXbbcdccbXbbbXbbedee
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 1101111111 0011001 1111 1011110111 0111010101 111110 1101 1111110101 1101100111 1111001 1101 1010010101 1101010111 11010 00101 0111010111 01110100001 101010 10101 10101010001 11010000101 110111 1111 11110000101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

blue, her, it

Anaphora

of