This is an analysis of The Old Gate Made Of Pickets by Madison Julius Cawein.
There was moonlight in the garden and the chirr and chirp of crickets;
There was scent of pink and peony and deep syringa thickets,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabba X ccddc X cXccc X eecce X aaffa
- Stanza lengths: 5,1,5,1,5,1,5,1,5,
- Metre: 1111001010111010 1110111001110010 110011101010110010 11101110 00111010 1 10111110101110110 00111110101010010 0011101010101010 00101010 10111010 1 1111111110111010 00111010101010100 1111101010111010 10101010 11111010 1 0111111011111010 1010101010101010 0010101010111110 10011010 10111110 1 10101010101001010 1011101010111010 1010111010111010 10101110 10111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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