This is an analysis of My Castle by Radclyffe Hall.
Ah ! why have I built my Castle
On the shifting golden sand?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cXbX cdXd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111110 1010101 101001010 0100110 11111110 1110101 111101010 0110110 111011110 0111111 101001110 1110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
of, and
Anaphora
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