This is an analysis of The Strange Lady by William Cullen Bryant.
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by,
As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool dear sky;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eXfX aabX ggcX hhaa iiXX eeXh hhjj bbfXeeee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
- Metre: 01010111011101 10110101110111 11000101110101 11010101110101 01010001110001 01010111010111 11010001010101 11110101100101 101110111010101 111101111011010 101111101110111 010101110111010 1010100101111101 01010001010111 11110101110111 111101011111010 11000101010001 11011101010001 11011101110111 110101001101110 101010101010101 11010101110101 01110101010101 110010001111101 100011101011111 11011101010101 01011101010101 111101011001110 01000101110111 10010101010001 110111111010100 11010101011101 110101110100101 01011101110001 01010111010001 01110111010101 110101011100101 01000101010101 11010111110101 11000101111110 110100101110101 111111110101001 11001101010101 11010001111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, in, i, thou, his, of
Anaphora
the, or
