This is an analysis of At The Play by Virna Sheard.
Just above the boxes and where the high lights fall
Looketh down a carven face from out the gilded wall.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AA bbcc ddee ffee ggXX fXffXAA
- Stanza lengths: 2,4,4,4,4,7,
- Metre: 101010110111 1010101010101 1111100110001 1111101010011 101110111011 1011100010101 111010110101 1010101110111 1111101101110 1110101101110 111010010111 1111100011101 111011110110 1011100010101 111011110100 111010110101 101011111101 1010101010100 101010111111 1010101010100 1110011011101 10101011111 101010110111 1010101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, still
Anaphora
still