This is an analysis of The Shallows Of The Ford by Henry Herbert Knibbs.
Did you ever wait for daylight
when the stars along the river…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdebfdfgehbghhXhghihihcbbjXbiXgfXiafXiaiakiibkjgbhaghh
- Stanza lengths: 56,
- Metre: 01101111 10101010 10111111 0010111 10101010 10101110 10101010 1011111 11101110 10111011 10111010 1010001 10101110 11101011 11101110 1010001 10100010 10101110 101010011 0010001 10111010 11101110 11111011 1111111 11111011 11111110 11111010 1010101 101010 11101010 11101111 1010111 10111111 11111010 10111110 1110111 10101110 00111010 10101110 1011111 11101010 111111011 11101110 1010111 11111111 00101111 101010010 101111 11100010 10111011 10100010 10111001 10111110 10111111 10101110 0010001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, his
Epiphora
him
