This is an analysis of Crotalus by Francis Bret Harte.
No life in earth, or air, or sky;
The sunbeams, broken silently,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba ccc ccc ddd eeX ccc fff ggX hhh iii ccc jjj ggg aba kkkXjjj
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Metre: 11011111 01010100 10110111 11011101 11011101 01111101 100110101 01010101 11011101 11110011 11110111 010010101 01101111 00110111 01010101 01111001 10110101 11011101 010101001 11011101 11011111 011110101 11011101 01011100 11111101 11010101 01111101 11011111 11111111 100001001 11011101 10010001 10111111 11110001 110011111 11011111 10110111 11110101 01110111 00111100 11010100 11011111 01110111 10010101 10110111 10110111 11111111 01100001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
thee
Anaphora
a, the, and, of
