This is an analysis of The Mountain-Still by Madison Julius Cawein.
The Moonshiner
He leans far out and watches: Down below…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abbaabbacaacdd X d beebbeebfgbfgb
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,1,14,
- Metre: 0100 1111110101 0111010101 0101110111 1111110111 01001011101 0101010101 0101111101 0001011101 0101010100 1111010101 01010111101 0111010111 11011010001 1111111101 1 010 1101010111 1101111111 0111010101 1111000101 1111011101 1101010111 0101111101 0111110111 0101011001 1111011111 01001111101 0111100111 1111011101 1101000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
he, who
Anaphora
the