This is an analysis of The Stage-Driver's Story by Francis Bret Harte.

It was the stage-driver's story, as he stood with his back to the
wheelers,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXcd cefg cbdh dgijd biklj kmhj gdced kcig bmdag fclmdfX
  • Stanza lengths: 5,4,4,5,5,4,5,4,5,7,
  • Metre: 0101101011100100 10 1001001110010011 110101110010011 110110011010011010 1011011011111101 11010110010110010 1111011111011011 110010011010010110 110101011010010 1111101110010010 100101010111110 1001001010110010 11101111010110 1010111111010010 110101110010011 01110011100101 100 110111110010110 10110101010101 10 110101111010110 110101111010010 1111011011010010 1101011011110010 110101111110010 0101101111010010 11110100001011010 1010011010010110 1101011010111010 10110110010010 010 1001011011110010 1001001110010110 0100110111101010 1100111011110010 1111001110110010 1101101110110010 0111001111001010 11001100110110100 10 101101010011011 110110111110111 10 11000100111111 1110 0111101111110111 10
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 48

Repeated words/phrases

his, i, of, you, and, to, be, we

Anaphora

then