This is an analysis of Songs Without Sense: [for The Parlor And Piano] by Francis Bret Harte.
I. THE PERSONIFIED SENTIMENTAL
AFFECTION’S charm no longer gilds…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a Xbabcded cbdbbeee f ddgdhaia acjcfccc ahihacgc i kkgggXkjkg
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,1,8,8,8,1,10,
- Metre: 1001011010 01011101 010001 110100101 010101 110100101 110101 01110101 0100001 11110101 010101 01010111 110101 01111101 010001 11010101 011101 1010010 01110111 111111 11011101 011111 11111101 111101 11111101 010111 01110111 111101 01011101 011101 11010101 011101 11011100 111111 11110101 110101 11010101 110111 11011101 111101 01011111 010111 111 101111 011111 111 111 11001 11111111 11111 11111 11001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
s, rail, fence, old, la, ha
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
rail, la
Anadiplosis
la
