This is an analysis of Lily-Bell And Thistledown Song I by Louisa May Alcott.

Awake! Awake! for the earliest gleam
Of golden sunlight shines…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXacaDDBEEB XXXbbcacDDBEEB
  • Stanza lengths: 14,14,
  • Metre: 0101101001 010111 1010011101 0101001 010110111 0011101 110110101 1010111 1111 1111 10111010 100101 1101 10101010 010110101 11001010 110010111 10100101 1101111101 101111 101111101 01011011 1111 1111 10111010 100101 1101 10101010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

hath, and