This is an analysis of The Treasure Box by Jean Blewett.
I asked Aunt Persis yester-eve, as twilight fell,
If she had things of value hidden safe away-…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdX efbfXgdhei cXfehjik XkhfXhalX hbdfefhhhXhhXXgl bbjXjj
- Stanza lengths: 5,10,8,9,16,6,
- Metre: 111101011111 011101010101 101001011011 010111010111 110001010101 111111001111 010001010111 010101011101 011101011101 11010100110101 1101010010100 110111110111 1111110111 0111111101 01010101 0100 0111011111010 010101011101 101001001101 111101011101 110111011101 111100110101 110100010 111 010101011101 0101110110111 110101111101 110101 110111110100 110111010111 010111110111 0111100 010101 110101011101 0101010101110101 010101001101 010101110101 010101011101 111101010101 010101011101 011101000111 0100110111011 111101011101 011100110111 011001110100 1111100100111 011101011000 111111110111 1001110111111 010101110111 110111110101 111001001111 110111010111 110111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, them, i, these
Anaphora
the, of
