This is an analysis of Song Of The Night-Riders by Madison Julius Cawein.

It's up and out with the bat and owl!
We ride by night in fair and foul;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcCddcccccceebbffcccceeggcCaaffddcc
  • Stanza lengths: 40,
  • Metre: 011100111 11110111 01111101 111111111 111101111 11111101 11111111 111011100 01110111 101111111 111100101 101011111 110010111 110111101 11011111 111011100 011110101 010110101 1100101111 110110111 1001011001 11111111 101101111 11111100 111010111 110010101 1100101111 11011101 11011111 01111111 111111111 111011100 111100111 11111111 01111101 11111111 01011111 11010111 111110111 11111100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

and, him

Anaphora

and