This is an analysis of What The Wolf Really Said To Little Red Riding-Hood by Francis Bret Harte.
Wondering maiden, so puzzled and fair,
Why dost thou murmur and ponder and stare?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbb ccddaa ddeeaa
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 1001011011 1111011011 1111111011 1001001011 1001011001 1111011111 1111011111 1111001001 1011001101 1011011001 1111011101 1001001111 1011011001 1111111111 1111001011 1011111011 1111001101 0111101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
and, why, when, i
Anaphora
only, why
