This is an analysis of Common-Wealth by Virna Sheard.
Give thanks, my soul, for the things that are free!
The blue of the sky, the shade of a tree,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Aaa bbb ccc bbb aaa AXa
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 1111101111 0100101001 10100100101 0101111001 1111101101 1101011011 1010101101 0100101101 10100100101 01011001101 010010001001 01001101001 1101101111 1100100111 10101010111 1111101111 0101101100 01110101100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
of, for, and
Anaphora
the, for