This is an analysis of Heart's-Ease by Mathilde Blind.

As opiates to the sick on wakeful nights,
As light to flowers, as flowers in poor men's rooms,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXaabba cddcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 110000111001 110101100111 1001010101 01010000101 11001010101 11010001001 01001000101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010111 1111010101 0101010101 01010001111 1111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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