This is an analysis of The Passing Of Pan by Guy Wetmore Carryl.

Laughter, velvet-lipped, runs ringing
All along the woodland ways,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXC adadeceC bfXfgcgCXbbbbeceC
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,17,
  • Metre: 10101110 1010111 10110010 10111001 1010101 11010101 1010100 1000101 10101010 1110111 10101010 1010101 10111111 0011011 101000011 1000101 00101010 1010101 100010010 1010101 11101010 0010101 10100010 1000101 10101110 1010011 101010010 1010111 11101011 1110101 11101011 1000101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 32

Anaphora

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