This is an analysis of Bryant by James Whitcomb Riley.

The harp has fallen from the master's hand;
Mute is the music, voiceless are the strings,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0111000101 1001010101 1111010111 011010101 0101001101 11001010100 1001010111 1111010101 11110010001 1101000101 1101011111 11010001001 1111010101 11100100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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