This is an analysis of In The City by Radclyffe Hall.

Oh ! City girls are pale-like,
And proud-like, and cold-like.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcddXc eebfggXf
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 1101111 111111 1111010 110011 1100011 011011 11110100 110111 1100011 011011 1111010 010111 1111011 011011 11100100 010111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and, like, hills, place, road

Anaphora

and

Epiphora

like, hills, place, road