This is an analysis of O Silver Rose by Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall.

THE dark hour turns so slowly and so sweet,
The last still hour soft-fallen from the stars.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc dedeXaeae
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
  • Metre: 01101110111 01110110001 0101111111 110110 11110010001 1101110111 1111110111 011111 1001000101110 0011011111 110111100010 111011 1111101101 1111111111 0101110111 111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

me

Anaphora

the, life