This is an analysis of The Water Nymphs by Ellis Parker Butler.
They hide in the brook when I seek to draw nearer,
Laughing amain when I feign to depart;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 110011110110 1010111001 10110111110 1001111001 1110011110 1101101101 10111011110 1111111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
i, voice
