This is an analysis of The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole.
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came at the evening cold and gray…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xabbccbb ddaabX bbaaaacX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,8,
- Metre: 111100111 11010111 001011111 111100101 011100111 01011111 1111110101 11010101 10101010101 1010110101 1100100101 110010101 111010111 11101110100 010100111 1010011110011 101010101 01111101 011101101 011110110 111100111 01111001110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
the, you