This is an analysis of To Charlotte Cushman by Sidney Lanier.

Look where a three-point star shall weave his beam
Into the slumb'rous tissue of some stream,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbbcccXdd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101111101 0001011011 10111001101 0101010111 1001011111 01001000111 0101111111 1111011101 10111010111 111100100101 1111001111 0101001000 1101111101 11011101001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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