This is an analysis of The Lost Tails Of Miletus by Francis Bret Harte.
High on the Thracian hills, half hid in the billows of clover,
Thyme, and the asphodel blooms, and lulled by Pactolian streamlet,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXbXc bcXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,6,4,4,
- Metre: 110101110010010 110100111110010 10100110101110 101001110010010 1001010100100010 011101110010 01010100100110101 10110 110010110100100 10 110101011010010 11010100110110 1101011011010100 01011111101010 01110111001110 101001010111000 1111111011010110 110111111010010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
and, his
Anaphora
ai
