This is an analysis of With Strawberries We Filled A Tray by William Ernest Henley.

WITH strawberries we filled a tray,
And then we drove away, away…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaBaaaaaB
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 01101101 11110101 01010101 11110111 11011111 11010111 011111001 01101101 0110 010011011 11010101 11111111 11111100 11111101 0110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

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