This is an analysis of Near Helikon by Trumbull Stickney.

By such an all-embalming summer day
As sweetens now among the mountain pines…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdccdc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1101010101 1001010101 0101111101 1111010111 01000010101 1111110001 0011010111 0111011101 1101000101 0101010101 110010010001 1001010101 1011010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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