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,…
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