This is an analysis of The Young Volunteer by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
With a knock upon the window comes the young volunteer,
'Tis his step upon the threshold; 'what is it brings you here?'…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXaAXaab aaaaacaAa aabaaaaaba aaaabaaaaaXcaaaaabaaa
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,10,21,
- Metre: 00101010101101 101010111001110 10111101101010 1101110101101 101101101101 1011110001100 11011110001101 011010101111101 11110100111010 1111010001101 001101001101 1111010001101 00101110101101 10101011100111 11110100111010 0111010101101 101101101101 11111100101101 1101110001101 1100111110011 11010101101110 0111010101101 001101001101 1101010001101 1101110001101 1010110111101 11110101001010 1101010100101 101101101101 11101110101101 1110110001101 0111110111101 101101011101010 11101010001101 001101001101 1101010101101 10111011001101 10111010110101 11011101111110 1101110110101 101101101101 1111110101101 1011111001101 1101110110011 010001011010010 1101010111101 101101101101 10100010001101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
volunteer, and, with, this, said, oh
Anaphora
with, oh
Epiphora
volunteer
