This is an analysis of To A Lost Love by Sir Lewis Morris.

COLD snowdrops which the shrinking new-born year
Sends like the dove from out the storm-tost ark ;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dcdc efef ghgh XiXi
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1101010111 1101010111 1100111101 01010010001 11000110101 0101010111 1110001111 1101110111 111010001001 10010100101 1111111101 1101 1111111111 1101111111 1111000101 1101111111 1111010010010 1111010101 11111101010 1111010111 1111010111 1111000101 1011000100 1101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

and, you, like, she

Anaphora

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