This is an analysis of Dirge by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Knows he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dada efef gegc haha aaaa idid jhjhXbdb Xkkk XfXf Xgcg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110101 010101 11010101 111111 00110101 011101 11011101 011101 01011101 101101 11110101 101001 1111000101 11010101 0111010 110111 10110011 11010101 11010101 110101 11010111 110001001 01110111 11010111 11000101 11110111 110100111 11011111 110100101 111111 01111001 110101 1001110 1001001 1011100 111001 10111111 010111 101100111 010101 110101 111011 11011111 1111111 111101 110111 01010100 001111 1100111 010100 01010101 010100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
who, they, for, their
Anaphora
who, they, the