This is an analysis of Star Of My Heart by Vachel Lindsay.

Star of my heart, I follow from afar.
Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbbbbbX cdccdeeeaaeXe
  • Stanza lengths: 10,13,
  • Metre: 1011110001 1111111101 1101110101 1001010111 10101010101 11100101 01011111 10110101 11010101 101111111010 0101010101 0101111101 0101010101 1011110101 1111010101 1101110011 0111110101 1101010111 1101011101 11110101 1010101 110011111 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

and, of

Anaphora

past

Epiphora

are