This is an analysis of Her Letter by Francis Bret Harte.
I'm sitting alone by the fire,
Dressed just as I came from the dance,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXe dfdfghgh XXdXiXiX jhXhdfdf jcjXXXXX akakkbkX jejeffbX lclcafaf jejekfkfXaiaiifif
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 010011010 11111001 001101101 01011001 0010010110 11011001 011110010 010110011 010010110 11001001 110010110 11101111 111011111 11101101 111110111 110101111 111111100 11111011 110110010 01111111 100010110 11011111 1101010010 11001001 110111110 11001101 0111110100 011000001 0111010110 11011011 110011110 11011001 111010110 001001001 0010110010 01001001 0010010100 101001001 111110010 101111111 010010010 01111001 0010111110 11011111 0011110110 001011101 111111010 001111001 0011110010 101101101 0011011010 010110001 0111011010 001011101 111110110 0111010010 110111010 01111001 010110110 11101011 011110110 11011111 1010110010 01001001 110110010 10111101 010110010 01011011 1000100110 11001001 110101110 01011001 011010110 01001011 110110110 11101001 110110110 111101111 1111110010 111011001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 80
Repeated words/phrases
'and, i, ', and, of
Anaphora
and, 'and, in, of, good
Epiphora
'
Anadiplosis
that
