This is an analysis of What The Chimney Sang by Francis Bret Harte.
Over the chimney the night-wind sang
And chanted a melody no one knew;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABcccX ABbbbX ABbbbX ABddXX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 100100111 1100100111 1010110111 1100111111 111010111 11010010 100100111 1100100111 1010111101 11110100111 1010101111 111010010 100100111 1100100111 10111110101 100110101 110011101 111010010 100100111 1100100111 1010101111 111101111 111011100 01110010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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