This is an analysis of Djolan by Ellis Parker Butler.

Soft was the night, the eve how airy,
When through the big, fat dictionary…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Aabb ccdd eeff ggcc hhXc XeXf XXcc iiee Aaee Xh
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
  • Metre: 110101110 110111010 11010101 11011111 11100111 01000111 11111101 00010101 00010101 01001001 11011101 01010110 110111010 110101110 10111111 10110110 111000101 011011101 11010100 110110111 1011001111 01110011 1100111011 11010101 1100101001 11010101 1010101111 01110100 101011111 11010101 11011001 100100111 110101110 111101010 11111111 01010101 0101110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 38

Repeated words/phrases

i

Anaphora

it, i