This is an analysis of My Brook by Helen Hay Whitney.

Earth holds no sweeter secret anywhere
Than this my brook, that lisps along the green…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cccdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1011110101 0101011111 1111010101 1101010101 0111010001 0101110111 1111010101 1001011101 01001010101 11011101001 11110101001 1101010101 0101010011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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