This is an analysis of Boy O' Dreams by Helen Hay Whitney.
Must I leave you in the mountains,
Boy o' Dreams?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aAaaXbcb dAdaXef efAfacgcg
- Stanza lengths: 8,7,9,
- Metre: 11110010 111 11111010 1010011 10111010 1010101 00101110 1010001 11110010 111 11101010 1010011 10101010 1010001 10101011 0010001 11111111 111 111001111 0010111 00101110 1010101 11101010 1010011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
to, you
Anaphora
only
