This is an analysis of Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
I know not in what fashion she was made,
Nor what her voice was, when she used to speak,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea aXaX fgfg hchc idid
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110110111 1101111101 1001010101 111101 1100010011 10001110101 1100010101 111101 1111010101 10011101001 0111010111 110101 1101010001 01011010111 0101111001 110100 0101010011 1101110101 0101110101 010101 0001010111 1100110101 1101010101 0101001 0101110111 0101010001 1011110111 110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
her
Anaphora
nor, a
