This is an analysis of A Year's Courtship by Henry Timrod.
I saw her, Harry, first, in March --
You know the street that leadeth down…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh hihi ibib djdj kdkd ibib jljl fXfX dcdc mimi inin fdfd hihiXdbdb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11010101 11011101 101101001 11010101 01011111 11011111 11010011 11010111 11010101 10010101 11110111 01010111 10010001 11110101 11011011 11101111 11110101 11011111 01110111 11010101 11011101 11011101 11010011 11110101 11111111 01010001 10010101 11110101 11111111 01110001 1100001001 11010001 11111111 11110111 11111101 01010101 10111111 011100101 111100001 11010101 11111111 01010101 11100101 10111110 11111111 11011111 01010101 11110101 01011101 11010101 111001001 11110101 11011111 11110101 11110101 00110101 11010111 11111111 11011101 01000101 1111101 11011101 1001010001 11111101 11011111 01011101 10110100 11011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 68
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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Anadiplosis
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