This is an analysis of Storm And Calm by Henry Timrod.

Sweet are these kisses of the South,
As dropped from woman's rosiest mouth,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb ffgg bbhh XXii ggjj jjkkk
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Metre: 11110001 11010101 110011101 101100101 11011100 10110101 110100111 10001100 01110111 01010111 101111001 00110011 10101101 10110111 010011101 10110101 11010111 11010101 01110101 11010101 101101100 01010101 11010011 010111001 10111101 11110101 11010101 11110101 11110101 11010111 11110001 11110101 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 33

Repeated words/phrases

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