This is an analysis of For Beauty I Am Not A Star by Woodrow Wilson.

For beauty I am not a star,
There are others more perfect by far,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabba
  • Stanza lengths: 5,
  • Metre: 11011101 111010111 1111110 111010 00101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: limerick
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 5

Repeated words/phrases

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Epiphora

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Anadiplosis

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