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…
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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