This is an analysis of An Alpine Picture by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Stand here and look, and softly draw your breath
Lest the dread avalanche come crashing down!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacdbcdb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110111 1011011101 1101010101 11010010101 1111010101 11010110111 0101010111 0101010111 1111010101 01110010001 1001000101 10010101001 1111000100 1001011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14