This is an analysis of Over The Hills And Far Away by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.

A LITTLE bird flew my window by,
'Twixt the level street and the level sky,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaX ccddaX ddddaX eeffaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 010111101 1010110101 01010101 011110101 111010101 110011110 010110111 001010111 011100101 1011100101 1010110111 110011110 010110111 1110111111 111011111 011011101 101010101 010011110 111010101 100101101 110111111 001011111 111011111 10011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

level, i, and

Anaphora

the

Epiphora

bound