This is an analysis of From The Short Story Shadow-Children by Louisa May Alcott.

Little shadows, little shadows
Dancing on the chamber wall,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbXbXcdc Xeaeafaf aghgXihi dcacAheX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 10111011 1010101 11101010 1011111 11101110 1110111 11111010 1011111 10101010 0111010 10100010 10101010 10101010 1010011 111010010 1010111 11101110 1110101 11101010 1010011 11101110 0110100 10101010 00101001 11101110 1011101 11111010 1111111 10111011 1110111 11111110 100101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

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