This is an analysis of The Parting by Jean Blewett.

One summer's morning I heard a lark
Singing to heaven, a sweet-throated bird;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef dgXg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110101101 1001001101 1101111001 0100101111 010111111 0111101111 111110111 111011100 100111011 1101001110 011110111 1110111110 111100110 110000101 10100111 111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

i, my