This is an analysis of The Temple by Virna Sheard.
Enter the temple beautiful! The house not made with hands!
Rain-washed and green, wind-swept and clean,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXabb cacdd eXecc adabb bdbff aXagg
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 10010100011101 11111111 010101 11010101 10110111 01110101110111 11011101 0101111 11011101 01011101 10010101110001 11110101 010101 11010111 10110001 10001001001001 01011101 010101 11010101 101110101 11010100101101 10011101 011101 10010111 11011011 11011100010101 1101001010 101111 11010111 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
and, no
Anadiplosis
here