This is an analysis of To Ned by Herman Melville.

Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn?
Hollows thereof lay rich in shade…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXc Xdddee XfgXfhh bigiddXcacadd
  • Stanza lengths: 7,6,7,13,
  • Metre: 100111011 10111101 1100101001 11110111 01111111 110111111 1 11010110 110000101 01010111 11110101 100110110 0101000101 01010111 11010101 011101 0101000110 1 11010101 11011100100 11110101 110101001 010011010 11101001 110010101 11110010111 11010101 010010101 11010101 01011101 10010101 1101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

years

Anaphora

but