This is an analysis of In May by Madison Julius Cawein.

When you and I in the hills went Maying,
You and I in the bright May weather,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaabcccX X BXXbdddB XXBaabcccB
  • Stanza lengths: 8,1,8,10,
  • Metre: 1111001110 111001110 0111101010 1001001110 11111101 11111111 1011 1111001110 1 1101101110 1101101111 1011001111 1011111110 11111101 11111101 1011 1101101110 1 11001110010 11111111110 00101111010 0111001110 011110101 011111111 1111 11001110010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

in, you, and

Anaphora

there

Epiphora

low, there