This is an analysis of Bret Harte* by Ina D. Coolbrith.
What wizardry is this? What necromance?
These forest-aisles, these mountains grim and vast?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd aeae fgfg eeee bhbh dada aiai bXiX fifi jeje dhdh hehe klkl mijmi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 1100001100 11010110111 11001110101 0100101 0101010111 1101000101 1100110101 011101 1011111101 1011110111 0101111111 011111 01110101101 1111011101 0101100101 111101 1101000101 1101010111 1101010111 010101 1101001111 0101010101 0101111111 101101 1111010101 1111010101 0101110101 011111 1101010001 1101110101 0101110101 010001 1101010101 1001011101 0101011001 110100 1101110111 1001110011 0101110101 110100 1111000111 1001010111 1110000111 001101 1101110101 1101110111 1001011101 111101 1101110111 0111011101 1011010011 1111001 10010111001 0111011101 1111110111 111101 101011010010001001 10101010110100111 0100010100010101 100011101010101 10
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 61
Repeated words/phrases
these, or, i, all, and
Anaphora
these