This is an analysis of Miss Edith's Modest Request by Francis Bret Harte.
My Papa knows you, and he says you're a man who makes reading for
books;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXX ffXghg egeigig iiiieigX gXghjjj jeiejaka Xffdee giXkeie Xggbib hflfdXa ciigXli
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,7,8,7,8,6,7,6,7,7,
- Metre: 1101111110111101 1 11101101110101110 1 1111111111111111 01 111011111111110 10 11010110111101111 01101101111011101 111010011010110 01 10101110101110 1001 1101100111101011 111111110101 1011 1010011011110111 11 11101011100100 001 0111100111100101 1 1101100110101101 1 110111111101011 111 111101111101111 1 11111001011001101 111010110110111 11 11111111111110 1011 111011110110010 01 11111101011101101 1 111011110111101 101 1110111100010111 01 1011010010011010 11 1110100101111010 01 1111110110111001 111011011011101101 1 111111101111011001 11011010011101011 1111111011100111 1 1111101110110110 1 01011111111111 1101 011111111010110 11 11011001011011011 11011011101101001 11111101111011 001 11100110111101110 1 111010010011111 01 1111110010101011 1110 11101010101011101 1111100011110111 1 11110101111001011 11111100111111 111 111111011011110 11
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 77
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, talk, her, would, that
Anaphora
and
