This is an analysis of Waywise by Katharine Lee Bates.

THE darkest wood that the north-wind stings
Hath its balsamum and its silverlings,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaXbaab
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 010110111 1010010100 0100100 0100110111 101010000 010100 10100010101 110000101 110001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

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