This is an analysis of Sphinx-Money by Mathilde Blind.
Where Pyramids and temple-wrecks are piled
Confusedly on camel-coloured sands,…
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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