This is an analysis of Beautiful Rose by Henry Clay Work.

Off on the prairie, where the balmy air
Kisses the waving corn,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dede bfbffgfg ffXfgXgX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,8,8,
  • Metre: 1101010101 100101 1101000101 110101 1101010101 110101 1001110111 110111 1001101 1001010 10101010101 1001010 1001010101 100101 1001110101 100101 1101010101 100011 1101110101 110101 1001010001 100101 10111101010 1010111 1001110101 10110100 1111110101 111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

as, from, but

Epiphora

rose

Anadiplosis

fair, love, gone, old, kneeled, why