This is an analysis of The Crooked Stick by Elinor Morton Wylie.
First Traveller: What's that lying in the dust?
Second Traveller: A crooked stick.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaXabcbccdedee
- Stanza lengths: 15,
- Metre: 11001110001 101000101 1100101011101010 10100000010 1100101 1010001010101 1100111 101010111 1101 10100111010001 110000101011101 10100111 1100101110001 1001 1010010111001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
traveller
