This is an analysis of The Mountain-Still by Madison Julius Cawein.

The Moonshiner
He leans far out and watches: Down below…

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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