This is an analysis of The College Colonel by Herman Melville.
He rides at their head;
A crutch by his saddle just slants in view,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXaeeXe Xbffb fcgX gagaXgdgddd
- Stanza lengths: 4,8,5,4,11,
- Metre: 11111 0110101101 1110111 1110111101 1101001 11111001 101011011011 11011011 10111 11111111 01101101 1111101 01010011 1100010101 1110100 01010111 101101 11100111 1111001 1011001101 1011111 00110101 00111101 001101011 1111101 11101011 11001001 10011101 11001011 11001011 1101101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
and, it, not, that
Anaphora
it, and
