This is an analysis of The Planting by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
PLANT it safe and sure, my child,
Then cease watching and cease weeping;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccb abddb XXeec abaaX fbccX gbeXb gbccb fhXih ebXib Xecci abddX abeeX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 1011111 11101110 1111111 1000101 00111110 1110101 00101110 1111111 1011111 10011110 1111111 011111100 1001101 1000101 111010100 1010101 11101010 1110101 1010111 11111100 1011101 10101110 1010101 1110011 11111010 1010101 11111010 1110101 1011100 10111010 11101001 100101110 1111101 1010111 11100010 1010111 00111010 0010101 1110111 10001110 1011101 00110110 1011100 1011111 01111010 1110101 10100010 1010101 1010101 10111110 1110001 11101110 0110111 1010101 10001110 0011111 10101010 1111101 1011101 10111110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
it, one, and
Anaphora
how