This is an analysis of San Francisco: April 18,1906 by Ina D. Coolbrith.
In olden days, a child, I trod thy Sands,
Thy sands unbuilded, rank with brush and briar…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acab adad ebeb fbfb Xece gbgb hchb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101011111 11100101110 1101011111 11001111010 1111010101 1101010111 10111100101 1100111010 0101011111 0111001111 1001010101 1111010111 1110110101 10011100010 1101110111 11001111010 11110101001 110111110010 11010100101 00011111010 1101010010 0011011101 11110100111 1101001101 1101010001 01011101010 1111111101 11001111010 1101110101 1101110111 1001111101 11001111010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
thy, and, my, of
Anaphora
i, thou
