This is an analysis of Near But Far Away by William Morris.

She wavered, stopped and turned, methought her eyes,
The deep grey windows of her heart, were wet,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX cddccd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101111001 0111000101 1011000101 0101010100 1101011101 11011101011 111111000111 0111100101 1111110101 1101111010 1101011111 1111111101 1011100101 1111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

and, sweet