This is an analysis of The Deserted Lover by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
I go through wet spring woods alone,
Through sweet green woods with heart of stone,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdeeXeffdXgghhbbhh
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 111101101 11110101 11010101 110111 01100101 01010001 110100101 1111 11010111 01010111 11011100 111101 11010101 11010011 11111101 1111 11010101 10110101 11110111 1001 11010101 11001100 11011101 1111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Anaphora
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