This is an analysis of The Village Street by Edgar Allan Poe.
In these rapid, restless shadows,
Once I walked at eventide,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdcXdadad ceaXfe gbdbhb caXaha giaibi ccbcgc hjdjij ceceXe XbjbXb haaaha jafaXa
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 01101011 1111100 10101010 1010111 10111011 1010101 10001110 1010111 101001010 1010111 10101110 1010101 10100110 0010101 10101110 00101010 10101011 1010101 001001010 11001001 100101011 1010101 10101110 00101011 10001110 1010100 10101010 010101 10101010 00101011 10110010 1010101 11111010 1011101 10111010 1110101 10001110 00100111 10101010 1010111 00101110 1010101 10011010 1011101 11111101 10100001 11101010 1011111 10101110 1010101 11101110 1011101 10111100 1010101 101001100 1000101 10101110 1111101 10111110 1011111 10101110 1010100 11100111 1010111 101000010 1100101 11101011 1010101 11101111 1101101 11101110 1110111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
on
Anaphora
on, like
Anadiplosis
shadow
