This is an analysis of Lydia Is Gone This Many A Year by Lizette Woodworth Reese.

Lydia is gone this many a year,
Yet when the lilacs stir,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abac adad efef ghgh cebe ifif
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1000101001 110111 00110111 010100 11010101 010101 10110101 110101 011111000 010101 100111101 110111 01011101 010011 11011101 010001 11010100 111101 110111001 111001 10110101 010101 01010111 0100111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

and, of

Anaphora

the, of