This is an analysis of The Mountain Heart's-Ease by Francis Bret Harte.

By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting,
By furrowed glade and dell,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gdgd XbXb agag cXcb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11011101010 110111 010011111110 110001 010011101010 110111 11110100010 110101 01010001010 110101 10011001110 011101 10010110010 110101 11110101010 110001 11010001010 010101 11010101010 010101 11010101110 111101 11010101010 11111 11110011010 111110 11010100010 110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

his, thy

Anaphora

by