This is an analysis of Sphinx-Money by Mathilde Blind.

Where Pyramids and temple-wrecks are piled
Confusedly on camel-coloured sands,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXaXbaabab
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 1100110111 1000110101 1011010001 1111110111 1111010001 1111010101 1101001100 1101010001 0111010101 1100011101 1111001101 1101010101 11001110101 0011110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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