This is an analysis of Hawaiian by Padraic Colum.
SANDALWOOD, you say, and in your thoughts it chimes
With Tyre and Solomon; to me it rhymes…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaab Xbacb XXccdd ebe aXXXc bXabaaacbXab
- Stanza lengths: 4,5,6,3,5,12,
- Metre: 10011101101 0111000101 01010101010 0101000101 100 0100111111 011101001 11110011110101 0100111 1100011 01110101100 01110111 1110010100100111 1111110 111010011111000111011101 101001011010101 0101010101 01101110110 110101 1101011101010 10010101110 10 1100101 10010101001 011010011100 0110111101 01 101010 101010 101010 10100101 010001 01001 101010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
with, sandalwood, to, like
Anaphora
with, the, too, like
Epiphora
peoples
