This is an analysis of Her Hair by James Whitcomb Riley.
The beauty of her hair bewilders me-
Pouring adown the brow, its cloven tide…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbaabaaaXaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0100010101 1010010101 1001011101 1101011000 1101010100 11001000101 11001010101 0101010100 1111010101 1100110101 1101110001 01011101100 1101011101 1101010001
- 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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