This is an analysis of To Wilhelmina by Sidney Lanier.
A white face, drooping, on a bending neck:
A tube-rose that with heavy petal curves…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXa bccb dddd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 0111010101 0111010101 01011101110 1001010101 0101010101 0101000101 11010010111 01001001101 1111000101 11110010101 1001010001 11010011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
of
Anaphora
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