This is an analysis of Your Criss-Crossed Ringlets Of Hair by Maxwell Bodenheim.

Your criss-crossed ringlets of hair
Are tipped with faltering opalescence.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabXbccX
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1111001 1101001000 110111001 110110111 0101011011 0100101101010 1101110101 101001001010011 111101101 101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

of, your

Epiphora

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