This is an analysis of How Often by Benjamin Franklin King.

They stood on the bridge at midnight,
In a park not far from town;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbAbCXCXBaBa
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11101111 0011101 11101111 0111011 01110010 010111 01110010 1111010 1101110 110111 1101110 110111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

they, how, often, oh

Anaphora

how