This is an analysis of The Station-Master Of Lone Prairie by Francis Bret Harte.
An empty bench, a sky of grayest etching,
A bare, bleak shed in blackest silhouette,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aBab deXe fgXg ahXh Xbgb icic adad iiXi aeae ajaj dede aBab fifX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101010 0111010101 10011101010 110010100101 11110111010 0101000101 010011101010 1101000111 11111111010 0111011101 10110101010 1011110101 10011101010 0111010101 100101101000 1001010111 10110110110 1011000111 11011101110 0101010101 1100011011100 0111001101 1100111011100 1111010111 0110011111100 1101110101 11011101011 1111001111 11111101110 00110100101 1010101001110 0101001101 10111111010 01010011111 10011101010 1011010101 11011101110 1111010111 1111011001000 0101010101 10111011010 1101010101 11011101010 1101110101 10111101110 0011000101 01011110010 11001001101 01110101010 10010011111 01011101010 1111010101 11111111010 0111011101 11111110110 0111010101 11111101010 1111101101 01110111010 0111011110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
of, had, and
Anaphora
twelve, the
