This is an analysis of A Complaint by Radclyffe Hall.

Oh ! why let all these winged days slip past us!
Will you not give me leave with those dear eyes,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaa bccb adda XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1111111111 0111110111 0101011101 01010111111 11110101010 1101010100 1101001101 11010111010 11010100110 1111010011 0001111101 01011101010 11111011100 1101011111 1100110100 11110101110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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