This is an analysis of Longfellow by James Whitcomb Riley.
The winds have talked with him confidingly;
The trees have whispered to him; and the night…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaabcaabcXcXcX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111011000 0111001101 1111010101 1111110100 0101101101 01001110100 1111010101 0101010100 0111010111 1101011100 0111001101 11000010111 11110101001 0101111010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
him, and, her
Anaphora
the
