This is an analysis of Eavesdropping by Katharine Lee Bates.
THOUGH the winds but stir on their hoary thrones
Of hemlock and pungent pine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabbbbcdcdeeXefgfg
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 10111111010 0111101 10100111 100101 110100101 1100101 110010101 1100101 110100101 1100111 011010101 1110101 110100101 1100101 10010100 0010101 100101111 1110111 101101101 10100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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