This is an analysis of The Acorn by Francis William Bourdillon.
An acorn swung
On an oak-tree bough;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefghgh hbhbbhbh ififdcdc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1101 11111 11011 01111 00101 10101 11001 10101 10101 00101 111101 11101 10111 10101 10111 00101 10101 11111 01111 111001 10111 1101 10111 1111 10101 10101 10101 11101 10111 10111 101011 10101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, i
Anaphora
and
