This is an analysis of The Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse Cranch.
WHEN Nature had made all her birds,
With no more cares to think on,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcX cded Xfbf cghg efaf ijkj aaaa ajlj eaea deme fbmX aXlj XdXd bihX aXhm hnan caca kemeXafef
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11011101 0111011 110100111 1101000 11011101 0101010 01010101 01110010 01011101 1111010 11110101 1101010 11110111 1010011 11011101 0111011 101010111 0101010 01010011 1101010 01010101 1101110 11110001 1101110 11011101 0111010 11010111 1101011 11101001 1001010 11110101 1101010 11011101 1011010 01110111 0101010 11011111 1001110 11010101 0100010 110101010 1101010 11010101 01100 11000101 1100100 11000111 0111010 110001001 1111110 11001101 0101000 11110101 1100110 010100011 1110000 11010101 110001 1110001 11010010 11110111 0100010 11011101 1100010 11010101 0101110 11111101 1111110 101011111 0100110 10011101 1110110 01110101 0111110 01110101 1111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 19
- Lines: 76
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, your
Anaphora
their, and, your
