This is an analysis of Circumstantial Evidence by Ellis Parker Butler.

She does not mind a good cigar
(The kind, that is, I smoke);…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe fdfd bgbg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11110001 011011 11111101 111011 11111111 110111 11110001 111111 11110111 111101 11010111 110111 110101101 111111 11010101 111101 11010101 001101 11110111 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

she