This is an analysis of The Spirit Of The Forest Spring by Madison Julius Cawein.
Over the rocks she trails her locks,
Her mossy locks that drip, drip, drip:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbacac caXaXccc cbabdccX aadaXcac
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 10011101 01011111 010011101 01011101 1011100100 100101110 110011101 0101101110 111100111 01011111 11010101 010100101 101111101 00101101110 1111100111 010111110 111101001 01011111 110110101 1011110101 10101001001 111101010 1111101001 0101101110 110100111 110011111 11111111 110110111 10100100111 0111101110 1100100111 110111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
her, drip, drips, and, she
Anaphora
her, where
