This is an analysis of The Raven. Christmas Tale, Told By A School-Boy To His Little Brothers And Sisters by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Underneath an old oak tree
There was of swine a huge company…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccaabbccccdddeeee aadXeefffccgghhiicceeXcccc
- Stanza lengths: 19,26,
- Metre: 1011111 110101100 11011101 11111111 11100110111 11011111111 11010111110 1011010011010 10111101 11001101011 11101011001 10100101111 1100101 11111 101101001101 10101001 10101001 10101010 11110010 1111110101 10101100111 1100100101 11111101010 1110100101 01101111001 11100110111 10100110101 11111011011 01101111101 11100100101 01001010010 1110011010010 11001101101 100111011001 01011101001 101101111101 01101101101 1111010110001 11011001001 111001001101 11101011111 11101101101 111101101101 111001101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
they, and, his, ship, he
Anaphora
and
