This is an analysis of The Apology by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone in grove and glen;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae fgfg ahah
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1110111 111010111 11001001 010101 111111 1110101 11110001 1010011 11101001 10101011 10010011 1110001 1110100 11100010 11010100 11100010 110011 1010101 01011101 1110001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

to, my