This is an analysis of Lines On An Incident Observed From The Deck Of A Steamboat On The Mississippi River by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta.
Where the dark primeval forests
Rise against the western sky…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb cccc Xcdc XeXe bfff cgXg dhfh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101010 1010101 11100010 0011101 11101010 0010101 00100010 0010101 11111110 1110101 11101110 1010111 01101100 1111111 10101010 0011001 10111010 1110111 11101110 1010101 10111010 0110101 101001010 0011101 10101010 0010101 10111010 1010101 10101010 1010011 11101010 1110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
now, he
Anaphora
now
