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…

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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

and

Anaphora

the, you