This is an analysis of My Castle by Radclyffe Hall.

Ah ! why have I built my Castle
On the shifting golden sand?…

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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

on