This is an analysis of The Harper by James Whitcomb Riley.
Like a drift of faded blossoms
Caught in a slanting rain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba bcbc Xdcd XbXb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101010 100101 0101101001 0010001 101101111 11010101 1111111111 1111001 1011110 1110101 00100010 1010101 11101010 101111 010110101 110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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