This is an analysis of To The Pliocene Skull by Francis Bret Harte.

(A GEOLOGICAL ADDRESS)
'Speak, O man, less recent! Fragmentary fossil!…

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  • Stanzas: 13
  • Lines: 49

Repeated words/phrases

than, with, thee, of

Anaphora

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