This is an analysis of The Old Water Mill by Madison Julius Cawein.
Wild ridge on ridge the wooded hills arise,
Between whose breezy vistas gulfs of skies…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXabbXaaaccdXeeffaaeeccaXaccggg dXhhXaddiiibbbggXg ddhhhccjjcc cckkhhjjllffjjhhXm aXaaXeeecXnnaaaaeemmm XeggffggllmXcceeiiggcc jjjjbbcXddddiic Xcddddjjii
- Stanza lengths: 32,18,11,18,21,22,15,10,
- Metre: 1111010101 0111010101 10111100100 1111010101 010010111001 0101010111 01110011111 01110100001 0101110101 1011111101 0111010101 1101000101 01101011111 1011010100 0101010101 1101010101 0111110111 1011111101 01010111001 0101010111 0101011111 0111111101 0111010101 1101110111 0100110001 0100101100 1001010101 1101100101 0111010101 110111001 1111110110 1011000101 1100100101 11010111000 0101000111 1011010101 1101011100 1101010101 0101010111 1010011101 1001000111 1001110111 11001010100 1101110111 0111011101 11010101001 1011000111 1101011111 1111000100 1001011101 11001110111 1101111111 0101010101 1101110101 1101110001 11111011001 0111110101 10010010001 1101100111 10010010101 1101111101 0111110101 1101001101 11011001001 1101011001 01001110101 1111010101 1101011101 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1111000101 11010110101 1101010001 0111110001 11000100101 11110101101 0111110101 1101001101 1101000101 1101110101 110110001110 111111010010 01001011000 110100100101 1101110111 1101010101 1001010111 1101110100 1011000111 1101010101 0101011101 1101110001 1001010100 1101011101 0110110111 1101110111 0110010101 0101101101 1011011101 11011111010 11001111111 1111110101 11000010001 0101001101 01001010101 1101010101 0111010111 1111110111 0101000101 0101111111 111101100 1101110001 11001110101 1101011101 1101110101 10111111001 1011111101 1101011001 1011000101 0001011101 0101100101 0111010101 0101110101 0101011111 111000111001 1111011101 11010101001 1101010101 010101110 0100111101 10010011101 1101010111 1111001101 11010111110 0001110100 1001010100 1101 110100 1101010111 0101011001 01110011101 010010010101 110010101010 01001110101 0101100111 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 147
Repeated words/phrases
and, its, his
Anaphora
its, and, or, thy
