This is an analysis of Blood Road by Katharine Lee Bates.
The Old Year groaned as he trudged away,
His guilty shadow black on the snow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX eded Xfcf gXgX dfdX ahah
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 011111101 010111101 1010011111 1011111 1010100111 0010110101 010110110 1101010 1111101101 110101111 1011111111 1010101 101110110100 011110101 1110011101 1111101 1011101101 1111011110 1011110001 111111100 1010100101 0100100101 110101101 01111010 011111101 0010010111 011100101 100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Anaphora
is, come