This is an analysis of The Incentive by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn.

I saw a sickly cellar plant
Droop on its feeble stem, for want…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaXXdd
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11010101 11010111 01111111 01010111 01011111 11011111 01011111 01010111 11010011 11111101 101110111 01110111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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