This is an analysis of Hide And Seek by Henry Van Dyke.
All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still,
All the flocks of fleecy clouds have wandered past the hill;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdbbX eeffggdddX X hheedddiid ddddjjdiiX
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,1,10,10,
- Metre: 10111010111 1010101110101 10101010101 1010101110001 1011 1011 101101 1001 1001 10111110 11101110101 100110111111 10111010101 10111011001 1011 1011 101011 1011 1011 10111110 1 10111111101 1110101111111 10111001101 1011101111101 101 1001 11100 101 111 111111 110001110101 1011011111011 10101011111 1110101111101 101 0101 011101 1001 10001 10111110
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
all, coo, ee, long, and
Anaphora
all
