This is an analysis of Love's Phantom by Mathilde Blind.

SHUT out day's wintry beams!
Sleep, brood upon my brain!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcaca bdbdeded
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 111101 110111 111101 1101 111111 1100111 110101 1101 010111 0101011 111111 01001 010101 011001 1101111 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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