This is an analysis of Songs Of The Voices Of Birds: The Warbling Of Blackbirds by Jean Ingelow.
When I hear the waters fretting,
When I see the chestnut letting…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabaab aacddc aabeeb ffbddb
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 11101010 11101110 101010101110101 10100110 10101110 1100111101010101 01111110 11111010 111010111011101 11101110 10011110 101011001011101 10101110 10111010 101111101010111 11101010 11101010 111011101110111 11111010 11101110 1111111010011001 11111010 00111010 101110101010111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
when, and
