This is an analysis of The Native Long by Jean Blewett.
There's a thing we love to think of when the summer days are long,
And the summer winds are blowing, and the summer sun is strong,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbCDED ffggCDED XhhiiCDED hhgeCDED jjhhCDED
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,9,8,8,
- Metre: 101110101010111 101011101010101 101010111110101 101111101010101 1010101 1001100 10111111 1111100 101110101011111 111000101010111 1011101010101010 101010111011101 1010101 1001100 10111111 1111100 1010111010101 11 101010101010111 101111101111111 101101111110101 1010101 1001100 10111111 1111100 101101101011101 111010100111101 1011101100010001 101101101011101 1011111 1001100 10111111 1111100 111111101110101 1010100100100101 11100011010101 101111101011111 1011111 1001100 10111111 1111100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
and, when, summer, canada, of, her, ours, all, with, in, we
Anaphora
when
