This is an analysis of The Quest by Madison Julius Cawein.

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First I asked the honeybee,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcabcXXd X eceecXXe X afaafgXa X AdXAdgga
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
  • Metre: 1 1110101 10001010 1010101 1110101 10100010 1010001 0011111 1011100 1 1110101 100101110 1010111 1110101 10101010 1011111 1010001 1011101 1 1110101 10101010 10101111 1111101 10101010 1010101 1111100 1011101 1 1011101 10111110 1111000 1011101 10001110 1110111 1001001 0010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

she, where, of, her

Anadiplosis

she