This is an analysis of A Pastoral by Ellis Parker Butler.
Just as the sun was setting
Back of the Western hills…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXX XXDa ebXb efXf bcXc agXg ebeb XXDX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1101110 100101 11011010 1001001 11101010 10111 110110010 0111110 111010010 11101111 1111011010 110101 11010110 0110101 11001110 1111111 11010110 110111 11111010 0111111 101011110 01011011 010110110 11011101 110111010 1100101 111010110 1101101 110010110 11011011 111110110 111010111 111010110 11101111 1111011010 110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
to, t, and, it, s
Anaphora
and, an
