This is an analysis of Beauty by Mathilde Blind.

Even as on some black background full of night
And hollow storm in cloudy disarray,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cacaca
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 10111111101 1101010101 0101011101 1100010101 1100110001 1101010001 1100011111 0001011101 1111010101 1101000101 0110110111 1010101101 1111010111 0100110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

so, and

Anaphora

so, and