This is an analysis of Heat by Madison Julius Cawein.

Now is it as if Spring had never been,
And Winter but a memory and dream,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab acacc X dede Xfdff X gdgd gdgdd X dhdh dhdhh i Xhdh dhdhh i jijiXjajaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,1,10,
  • Metre: 10010011100 1101010011 1101010101 110111 01011010111 0101110111 0101001101 10110100001 100101 1 1101010101 1011110101 1101010101 110111 01010101011 0101110101 0101010101 0111110101 010101 1 0101010111 0111010111 0101010111 110101 1101010111 0101101111 10110010101 0111110011 1000101 1 0111111101 01001111101 10011100111 010101 0101010101 1111010101 001110101 0101111001 0100111 1 10001000111 0101111101 01101101010 011101 01010111010 0101011101 010101100111 0001101101 111101 1 0111011101 0111001111 00110101101 011101 1101010101 0101010111 01010001001 1101110111 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 17
  • Lines: 59

Repeated words/phrases

and, her, that

Anaphora

the, from