This is an analysis of The Haunted Wood by Isaac McLellan.
I ofttimes come to this lonely place,
And forget the stir of my restless race;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddd eeddccdddd ffgghhccbb ffaaffiidd jjddccbbii
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,10,10,
- Metre: 1100100101 1010101101 01010101 010110101 010110101 011010111 1010110101 101010111 111101101 1010100101 00110100101 110010101 101110101 1010100111 101110101 111110101 111001101 110111101 110011111 0101110101 00111100111 110100101 1110100101 010100111 110010111 110111101 1100100101 1010111101 1110100101 110011101 0011111101 0010111001 11110100101 1010100101 10100100101 111010101 1101110111 101010101 1010100101 101010111 110111111 1100100101 101010101 1110100101 11110100101 1011100101 10101101101 1010100101 10110100101 010100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 50
Repeated words/phrases
and, his
Anaphora
the, and
