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,…

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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

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