This is an analysis of To The Memory Of George H. Ellwanger True Friend And Lover And Interpreter Of Nature, As A Slight Token Of Esteem And Admiration by Madison Julius Cawein.

Would I could talk as the flowers talk
To my soul! and the stars, in their ceaseless walk…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdddeeeffaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 18,
  • Metre: 111110101 01110101101 1101100111 011111111 011111101 11011111 111100100 11011101 110100111 1110111011 110111111 11011101 010111100 010100101 110101101 111100101 010011101 1100110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

and, i

Anaphora

the, and