This is an analysis of To A Town Poet by Lizette Woodworth Reese.
Snatch the departing mood;
Make yours its emptying reed, and pipe us still…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccd efeef gdggd fhffh hfhhf gabba fiffi
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 100101 11010011111 1001101101 100100 1101010101 1011000 0101010101 1011010111 010111 1001010101 110111 1101110101 011100100111 110111 1101010111 110111 1100010101 01011111101 111101 1101000101 011111 1111110101 100101101001 1101001 110111100001 100101 1110011101 1111001111 100101 1111011101 010011 111111011 1111011111 110101 1110010011 110101 1001100001 1111011101 011101 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
in, faith, and
Anaphora
faith, the
