This is an analysis of Brook, The by Ina D. Coolbrith.
Through the dreary winter,
Ice-locked, white and chill!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbccbXbXbb adadd efbFccggfXgF EcXcaaacEc
- Stanza lengths: 12,5,12,10,
- Metre: 101010 11111 101010 10101 1010010 001010 10101 001010 10111 1110010 111110 111111 011110 00101 101110 10111 011101 101011 10101 101110 11101 101110 101010 1100 0101 10111 1011010 101010 11101 101011 10101 101010 00101 0111010 0111110 1101110 110111 101011 11111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
all, dripping
Epiphora
it