This is an analysis of The Serenade by James Whitcomb Riley.
The midnight is not more bewildering
To her drowsed eyes, than to her ears, the sound…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbacdXdcc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0110110100 00101100101 0111010100 0101110101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010011 0011010111 00010001001 11111100011 100010100110 0110011101 01001010111 1111010101
- 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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