This is an analysis of Miracles by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Sick of myself and all that keeps the light
Of the wide heavens away from me and mine,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXcXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011111101 00110010111 1101110111 1001010001 1100110011 11011101001 1101111101 1110010001 1101001111 0101010101 1101010101 0101010100 0101110000 1101000111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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