This is an analysis of The Master's Hand by Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake.
THE scroll was old and gray;
The dust of time had gathered white and chill…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba acca cddc effe gggg eddX gffg gaagXfbbf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 011111 0101110111 0101000101 111101 010101 1111010111 1101110101 110101 110101 0111010101 11010101001 110101 110101 0111010111 01010001101 110011 010101 1101010111 0100011101 010101 111101 1101010111 1101001101 1101010 1101001 11011101111 1011010101 110101 110101 0101110101 1100010101 011101 1100111 1011111101 0101011101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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